Title: Bug? Quick Edit changes Author
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Bug? Quick Edit changes Author

 *  [solutionsphp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solutionsphp/)
 * (@solutionsphp)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/)
 * When I do a Quick Edit on a Post or Page, the Author of the Post or Page gets
   changed to me (admin user.) Is this intended behavior? It kind of makes “quick
   edit” redundant because I have to go back in and reset the author.

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 *  [Matthew Denton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdbitz/)
 * (@mdbitz)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815552)
 * When Quick Editing a page/post there is an Author Field that is displayed allowing
   you to set the author to the desired user. If there is only 1 user defined in
   the website then this field is hidden.
 *  Thread Starter [solutionsphp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solutionsphp/)
 * (@solutionsphp)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815587)
 * Thanks for your reply. However, I see no Author field when Quick Editing, and
   I have three users defined.
 *  [Sea Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcollier/)
 * (@jcollier)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815785)
 * Same problem. 3.0.4 multisite.
 *  [Sea Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcollier/)
 * (@jcollier)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815786)
 * Interesting. I went into one post, changed the author in the full edit screen,
   and now the Author field appears in both Quick Edit and Bulk Edit.
 * I am guessing that this might have something to do with the fact that these posts
   were imported from a WXR.xml file.
 * Resolved for me.
 *  [trivum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trivum/)
 * (@trivum)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815805)
 * Any solution for this? I am having the same problem. It seems it only started
   happening for me with the 3.0.5 release.
 *  Thread Starter [solutionsphp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solutionsphp/)
 * (@solutionsphp)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815806)
 * I haven’t closely investigated, but I think this might be plugin related because
   I noticed that I *do* have the author field in Quick Edit on another one of my
   WP sites.
 * [@trivum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trivum/) If you disable all plugins,
   does the problem persist?
 *  [trivum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trivum/)
 * (@trivum)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815807)
 * I disabled plugins, but the problem persists.
 *  [trivum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trivum/)
 * (@trivum)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815808)
 * Anyone with ideas for this problem?
 *  Thread Starter [solutionsphp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solutionsphp/)
 * (@solutionsphp)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815832)
 * [@trivum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trivum/) This might seem too obvious,
   but you do have two users setup, correct?
 *  [trivum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trivum/)
 * (@trivum)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815833)
 * Well, I don’t have the problem anymore. It seemed to go away for me with 3.1.
 *  [Adadaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skcsknathan001/)
 * (@skcsknathan001)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815855)
 * It happens in 3.2.1
    When an Admin does the QuickEdit. Now the original author
   is replaced with the Admin username.
 * I found out it is caused by the plugin: Co-Authors Plus

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 * Last reply from: [Adadaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skcsknathan001/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-quick-edit-changes-author/#post-1815855)
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