Title: Attributing Author
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Attributing Author

 *  Resolved [jaco223](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaco223/)
 * (@jaco223)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attributing-author/)
 * Hello
 * I made a big mistake. I wanted to take a security precaution and create a user
   as admin which I did. In the process I deleted another username that was the 
   author of my posts. And I attributed those posts to admin. Now all posts on my
   blog show admin as author. I’ve since created another user with admin privileges
   then tried to delete ‘admin’ hoping it would ask me who to attribute my posts
   to. Of course you can’t delete admin. Is there a way to attribute posts to ‘Jaco’
   as author? Sorry if this sounds too confusing. And sorry for all the noob questions.
 * I love wordpress and thought I had a handle on using the software. I think I 
   do, but I keep making stupid small mistakes which take me a long time to fix.
   However I’m not sorry I moved away from the free hosted .com blogs.

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 *  Thread Starter [jaco223](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaco223/)
 * (@jaco223)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attributing-author/#post-1723518)
 * Hello
 * I resolved this issue by installing the plugin ‘manageable’ and doing a quick
   edit of my posts.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attributing-author/#post-1723518)
 * Status: resolved

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