How can I change post author and remove a user?

  • Resolved eltioska

    (@eltioska)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    I need to replace the superadmin user on a multisite install. I had written all the posts on a site with this user (let’s call it “USER1”).

    First I created a new user (let’s call it “USER2”), gave it superadmin privileges, removed superadmin privileges from USER1, removed USER1 from the site. So far, so good.

    Now I want to assign USER2 as the author of the posts written by USER1 and then delete USER1. I tried deleting USER1, thinking that WP will ask me to migrate the author of the posts from USER1 to USER2 but it remains there! Any suggestions?

    cheers

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 5 months ago

    If you have too many to want to do via quick-edit in your posts menu, then a database search is the answer.

    This older post discusses it:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-change-author-attribution-on-many-posts-at-once?replies=16

    Thread Starter eltioska

    (@eltioska)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Cool, thanks.

    Next point: Any idea how to delete the old user? :o)

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 5 months ago

    I’m assuming from the whole site.

    Super Admin -> Users

    Find your user (by default they’re sorted by sign up)

    Hover over their icon and a DELETE button will show up.

    Bam 🙂

    Thread Starter eltioska

    (@eltioska)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Cheers. That’s exactly what I did. However, the user remains there. I tried it countless times (obviously signed in from the other user!)

    It’s a bit weird. There’s a Delete button, the page goes into “loading” mode, as if something will happen, and bang! There the user still is. Maybe it’s got a life of its own :oS

    Thanks for your help anyways!

    Thread Starter eltioska

    (@eltioska)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Whoa … I just sorted it out :o)

    Instead of deleting by: hovering over the user and clicking on the “Delete” button/link that appears;

    I clicked the checkbox on the side, went to “Bulk Actions”, chose “Delete” from there and clicked on “Apply” button & voila! the confirmation screen came up and the user was deleted :o)

    Cheers

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Huh. They should both work.

    In fact, I just checked and they do on my sites.

    Are you running any membership plugins?

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