Title: Import Multiple Authors via RSS/XML
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Import Multiple Authors via RSS/XML

 *  [psimatrix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psimatrix/)
 * (@psimatrix)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-multiple-authors-via-rssxml/)
 * We have are running WP Single User with multiple Authors. We have a large number
   of Authors (400+) with an XML file for each one we would like to import. By default,
   the RSS Import feature imports a post under the Admin user. We figured out how
   to manually modify the code of the importer to specify which $post_author to 
   set which Author to import for ([See previous post](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-import-doesnt-keep-author?replies=2))
   but I was wondering if anyone had a solution to update this import script to 
   automatically detect the author by using the RSS <author> tag in the same way
   that FeedWordPress does when it runs. This way we wouldn’t have to update the
   script each time we needed to do an import (which means only one person can be
   doing an import at a time for a specific author).

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-multiple-authors-via-rssxml/)
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