# Different authors without creating accounts

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/different-authors-without-creating-accounts/25775>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [September 20, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/different-authors-without-creating-accounts/25775 "2021-09-20T15:02:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![alexgoldman68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@alexgoldman68](https://forum.ghost.org/u/alexgoldman68)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/different-authors-without-creating-accounts/25775/1 "2021-09-20T15:02:59Z")

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I have multiple authors writing for the blog, but don’t want to create an account for each of them.

Is it possible to just designate each post as written by X author without that author having an account?

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**Author:** ![ManaSiWIbi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ManaSiWIbi](https://forum.ghost.org/u/ManaSiWIbi)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/different-authors-without-creating-accounts/25775/2 "2024-07-28T13:44:42Z")

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bump, any solution for this?

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/different-authors-without-creating-accounts/25775/3 "2024-07-28T14:14:03Z")

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You’re going to need to create a contributor for each one.

Jon Hickman posted a good trick recently:

> [@Creating new authors](https://forum.ghost.org/t/creating-new-authors/48694/5):
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> Using the Universal Import, you can upload placeholder authors via JSON. The import doesn’t generate emails and the account doesn’t need to be accepted by anyone so you can use anything that validates as an email address here. You can then edit the email, slug, name and role for one of these placeholders from inside admin each time you want to issue an author account to a real person. They’ll need to do a password reset from /ghost/#/signin to start using the login if that’s what they’re going …

Also in that thread is discussion of using gmail addresses with a + to make lots of apparent emails (one per contributor) that actually go to your inbox, if you don’t want contributors to have actual access to Ghost.

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**Author:** ![BruceInLouisville](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/bruceinlouisville/32/40997_2.png) [@BruceInLouisville](https://forum.ghost.org/u/BruceInLouisville)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/different-authors-without-creating-accounts/25775/4 "2024-07-28T16:40:08Z")

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I used that import option to set up additional authors, then customized their profiles for the info I wanted included. Worked great. MUCH better than messing with alias Gmail accounts.