Title: Author Without an Email?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Author Without an Email?

 *  [blueprintmagazine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueprintmagazine/)
 * (@blueprintmagazine)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-without-an-email/)
 * Is it possible to create an author profile without needing to input an e-mail?
   The site I’m operating has many informal contributors, making the regular WordPress
   registration process (with an e-mail, etc.) inappropriate. Can I somehow create
   a “dummy” author account without an e-mail, so I can sort the content of my site
   by author? Thank you.

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 *  [ladylynnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladylynnet/)
 * (@ladylynnet)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-without-an-email/#post-1299473)
 * I’m in a similar situation and haven’t found a plugin for eliminating the need
   for an email address, but this works pretty well for creating multiple accounts
   with the same email address: [http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/allow-multiple-accounts/](http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/allow-multiple-accounts/)
 * So far as I can tell it’s working great on my installation of 2.8.6. Only problem
   I ran into was a multiple email address error when trying to edit users’ accounts
   after they’d been created (to change roles, etc.) Fixed easily by commenting 
   out lines 177-178 of /wp-admin/includes/user.php
 *  [scarlettpromotions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlettpromotions/)
 * (@scarlettpromotions)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-without-an-email/#post-1299516)
 * Hi ladylynnet,
 * I am using version 2.9.2 and I would love to comment out the lines that you are
   referencing, but I think the numbering is different (this is my 177-178).
 *  * Check that the user login name and password is correct.
    * [@since](https://wordpress.org/support/users/since/)
   0.71
 * Can you please let me know what code I am commenting out? This is exactly what
   I need! 🙂 Thanks, Kari

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-without-an-email/#post-1299516)
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