Guest user post also showing Admin as author

Yes, It saves posts under Admin username (or UID 1) by default.

It has been designed to review and reassign to proper author (If needed) the post before publishing.

If you want it to be specific user automatically, you will have use the author parameter.
Guess your desired authors user ID is: 5, your shortcode will be [guest-posts author=5]

When I have a guest post come through, it is not showing who the author is who filled out the guest post form.

I have the same issue that swapnesh had where it automatically gets posted under admin, or in this case my name. But my problem is how do I know who actually wrote the post to give them credit?

Do I have a setting wrong?

The author name is saved under author custom field.
Check out the editing screen of custom field.

I am still not quite sure what you mean. Can you elaborate on the author custom field?

I have done a few “test” guest posts and all of them post as pending articles under my name instead of the name that was entered under the YOUR NAME section of the guest post form. When I look at the different author options from dashboard, there is no way to tell who wrote (nor email contact) unless they were to put that in the body of the post.

Does it have to be edited in the plugin? Does it have anything to do with this coding from the plugin files?:

//Post Properties
$new_post = array(
‘post_title’ => $title,
‘post_content’ => $story,
‘post_category’ => $category, // Usable for custom taxonomies too
‘tags_input’ => $tags,
‘post_status’ => ‘pending’, // Choose: publish, preview, future, draft, etc.
‘post_type’ => ‘post’, //’post’,page’ or use a custom post type if you want to
‘post_author’ => $authorid //Author ID
);
//save the new post
$pid = wp_insert_post($new_post);

/* Insert Form data into Custom Fields */
add_post_meta($pid, ‘author’, $author, true);
add_post_meta($pid, ‘author-email’, $email, true);
add_post_meta($pid, ‘author-website’, $site, true);

On post editing screen check this out:

View post on imgur.com

Thanks. I now see that my problem is I don’t have the custom fields option on my post editing screen. Any idea how I get this?

Yap, check this: https://i.imgur.com/bS8l5ZF.png

Awesome, okay making progress now. So my custom fields are now showing. I entered custom fields of author, author-email, and author-website just like you have on your screen shot.

What value do I use to have it pull in the author’s information once they complete the guest post form?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_post_meta

Got it! Thanks, and test seem to be working now.

I would like to thank you very much for all your assistance and quick responses!!

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Hi there.
I want to set the real Author of eahc post too, but I didn’t understand how to use get-post-meta…
We have to put the code on page with [guest-posts] ?
thank you for any help.

up…

I have a similar issue as above, and I followed the posted solution up to showing custom fields.

When I select Screen options, it’s not giving me a choice of Custom Fields but only: Author, Categories, Tags & Comments.

Do I need to update something?

Ok, I found the right page, displayed custom fields. Now how do I get it to show the guest blogger instead of the admin?