Title: Author field doesn't do anything
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Author field doesn't do anything

 *  [doverlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doverlord/)
 * (@doverlord)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-field-doesnt-do-anything/)
 * When I upload a file and fill in the ‘Author’ field (‘Show author field’ checked
   in Settings), nothing seems to be saved to the database. The only ‘author’ data
   is the ‘post_author’ field in ‘wp_posts’ which, of course, is the ID of the logged
   in user when the file was uploaded.
 * I need to be able to store the author of uploads, as items may be authored by
   a third party or more than one person.
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