How to remove author profiles from entire site?

I imported blog content from a WordPress site, which resulted in multiple blank author profiles to show up on our blog. The names that are seen in this screenshot are the only people that have access to this site. How can I remove those blank lines entirely? 

18 hours ago, creedon said:

Go to Settings > Permissions. Delete the unneeded Basic Authors. You will have a change to assign the posts for each deleted Basic Authors to another.

It is a rather tedious process.

This worked for the most part! I had to refresh the page after deleting each author, but this largely solved the issue. Thank you!

There is still one account that is showing up blank when I select an author on a blog post. But, when I go to Settings > Permissions, it appears as ",Key" and I can't remove it. 

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when I go to Settings > Permissions, it appears as ",Key" and I can't remove it. 

Is SS generating and error message? What is it?

On 11/11/2023 at 7:47 PM, creedon said:

Is SS generating and error message? What is it?

No, there isn't an error message. When I go to the ",Key" profile and select the Remove button, the ",Key" profile isn't available from the drop-down list. 

When you remove an author you have to select one of the remaining authors to assign the post to.

In your case all the Key authors are now about to be deleted so you can't assign the post to them. Choose one of the remaining authors.

10 hours ago, creedon said:

When you remove an author you have to select one of the remaining authors to assign the post to.

In your case all the Key authors are now about to be deleted so you can't assign the post to them. Choose one of the remaining authors.

I've already re-assigned all posts to either Peace Restored Staff or Ann Madison. The ,Key profile is still there, but can't be deleted.

I'm at the point where I'm just going to accept that it's some kind of bug and not put any more effort into trying to solve this 😅

3 hours ago, chymer said:

I've already re-assigned all posts to either Peace Restored Staff or Ann Madison. The ,Key profile is still there, but can't be deleted.

In your screen recording, where you clicked delete, then you clicked on the drop down. Go ahead and select one of the authors. Then you'll be able to delete ",keys". 

In effect the blog posts with "blank" authors will be assigned to whoever you pick from the drop down. Allowing you to free the "blank" author to be deleted. 

On 11/16/2023 at 4:53 PM, melody495 said:

In your screen recording, where you clicked delete, then you clicked on the drop down. Go ahead and select one of the authors. Then you'll be able to delete ",keys". 

In effect the blog posts with "blank" authors will be assigned to whoever you pick from the drop down. Allowing you to free the "blank" author to be deleted. 

Oh my goshhhhh, I feel ridiculous. I guess I should have read that popup a little closer 🤣

Thank you! 

16 hours ago, chymer said:

Oh my goshhhhh, I feel ridiculous. I guess I should have read that popup a little closer 🤣

Thank you! 

It happens to the best of us 😄 glad it's all working for you now!