Title: Changing author
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Changing author

 *  Resolved [AOS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fandoment/)
 * (@fandoment)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-author-3/)
 * Hello,
    I submitted a bunch of entries via the dashboard from our old web site.
   Now, my user name is showing for all.
 * I have now created another user name that I would like to be attributed to all
   the entries, but I don’t see change author as a possible in mass edit. Is it 
   possible to do?
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 *  Plugin Author [Marcel Pol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpol/)
 * (@mpol)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-author-3/#post-7609423)
 * Hi, thanks for the review.
 * Standard procedure would have been to import from a CSV file. You could still
   do an export, edit the CSV file in a text-editor, and import again.
    Make sure
   to keep the fields intact. Also, leave the quotes in place and make sure to have
   UNIX line-endings.
 * Other alternative is to edit in the database directly. Not sure if that is a 
   good idea.
 * The fields that you might want to change are the author_name, author_email but
   also author_id, which is the user_id as WordPress user. You could simply set 
   that id to 0.
 *  Thread Starter [AOS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fandoment/)
 * (@fandoment)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-author-3/#post-7609589)
 * Thanks for the speedy reply!

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-author-3/#post-7609589)
 * Status: resolved