[Plugin: RSS Importer] Adding authors – solution

Hi,

This question has been asked before but I’ve got a solution.

Open the rss-importer.php and find the line that says

$post_author = 1

And replace with this code:

preg_match('|<dc:creator>(.*?)</dc:creator>|is', $post, $get_post_author);
				$post_author_name = sanitize_user($wpdb->escape( html_entity_decode( trim( $get_post_author[1] ) ) ));
			$post_author = username_exists( $post_author_name );
			if (!$post_author) {
					$random_password = wp_generate_password( $length=12, $include_standard_special_chars=false );
					$post_author = wp_create_user( $post_author_name, $random_password, $post_author_name."@xxxxxxx.com");
					}

It’ll create a new user for each distinct username passed, with a fake email address.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/rss-importer/