Changing authors on multiple posts at a time

  • reuabyor

    (@reuabyor)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    I am trying to change authors on multiple posts at a time. I looked on the forum but I couldn’t find the answer that helped. Here is the problem:

    When I click on the bulk edit, there is not option for author…just tags, comments, status, pings, sticky. Where is the author? It is there when I look at them individually, but not as bulk. I am running 2.8.6

    thanks for any help possible

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  • Micah Cooksey

    (@micahcooksey)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    I don’t think you can change the author other than individually for each post. There may be a plugin out there, but other than that it looks like you’re stuck =)

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    If you can use phpMyAdmin, you can use a SQL query:

    UPDATE wp_posts SET post_author = 1 WHERE post_author = 444

    where 1 is the ID of the new author and 444 is the ID of the old one.

    BE SURE TO BACK UP your database before doing this!

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