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[resolved] Keeping original author name after revision (2 posts)

  1. Jonas Grumby
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    Posted 2 years ago #

    I'm messing with setting up a site that aggregates feeds from other sites with the Feed WordPress plugin. The one problem I am finding is that sometimes I like to change the Category assignment of some posts, either to prevent them from being Uncategorized, or to prevent having lots of categories that only have one post in them. The problem is that whenever I change the category assignment WordPress then shows me as the author. I'd like to show the original author's name. The theme is Swift and the Archive pages are set to excerpt. These are the pages that are showing the byline.

    If I can't preserve the original author's name I'd like to just remove that line. I don't want to imply that I wrote something just because I changed the category assignment.

    The plugin adds new authors to the site as Subscriber role. I assume that's why I can't even manually choose the real author's name. Maybe if I made them Contributor I could put their name back?

    Here's the site. It's very preliminary.

    Thanks for any advice.

    Thanks

  2. Jonas Grumby
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    It seems like the answer to this is do not use Quick Edit. I have found that when I use Edit instead of Quick Edit, the original Author's name is preserved.

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