Changing author

  • Resolved AOS

    (@fandoment)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,
    I submitted a bunch of entries via the dashboard from our old web site. Now, my user name is showing for all.

    I have now created another user name that I would like to be attributed to all the entries, but I don’t see change author as a possible in mass edit. Is it possible to do?

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  • Plugin Author Marcel Pol

    (@mpol)

    Hi, thanks for the review.

    Standard procedure would have been to import from a CSV file. You could still do an export, edit the CSV file in a text-editor, and import again.
    Make sure to keep the fields intact. Also, leave the quotes in place and make sure to have UNIX line-endings.

    Other alternative is to edit in the database directly. Not sure if that is a good idea.

    The fields that you might want to change are the author_name, author_email but also author_id, which is the user_id as WordPress user. You could simply set that id to 0.

    Thread Starter AOS

    (@fandoment)

    Thanks for the speedy reply!

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