Title: Changed author – lost article Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Changed author – lost article * Resolved [ibigfoot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibigfoot/) * (@ibigfoot) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-author-lost-article/) * Great. I’m managing a culture blog for several artists in my hometown ([http://www.kulturnetzwerk-augsburg.org](http://www.kulturnetzwerk-augsburg.org)). I changed for a series of articles the author name (the author has been installed 5 min earlier) – and now all changed articles are away… * Are they really deleted or are they only somehow disappeared? * You can’t find the articles anymore in the overview – and at the user oerview the new author has no single articles… So it doesn’t look like the articles has been only moved to different time/date…. * Any help appreciated. Especially if around 20 articles will be NOT deleted… ARGH! Thank you in advance! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Thread Starter [ibigfoot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibigfoot/) * (@ibigfoot) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-author-lost-article/#post-675231) * Further info: Just browsed the SQL database: The articles are still there but are not shown in the overview… * Any ideas? * Thread Starter [ibigfoot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibigfoot/) * (@ibigfoot) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-author-lost-article/#post-675232) * **Solved: **If you change the author of an article the article is changed to a _“private”_ status. The author has to check in under his name and has to _“ approve”_ all articles (simply click on the article and _“publish”_ again). * After this all articles can be seen. ** As Admin of the page I only wonder why I can’t see the articles during this process? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Changed author – lost article’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [ibigfoot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibigfoot/) * Last activity: [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-author-lost-article/#post-675232) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics