Title: Multiple users with same email address
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multiple users with same email address

 *  [Jeremy Sarber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsarber/)
 * (@jsarber)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/)
 * I just upgraded to WP 2.8 and a feature I need and have been using has been changed.
   I registered multiple users with my email address so that I can publish the written
   work of several ministers in my church under their own names. Apparently, 2.8
   will not allow it. Is there a fix?

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 *  [dm4design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dm4design/)
 * (@dm4design)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103084)
 * I am having the same issue. For my company we have multiple authors shown but
   all of the blogs are added to our blog from our internal employees to allow for
   proofreading and image adding.
 * We just created a new brand site and need to add authors and now I cannot have
   them all under the same email address anymore. Is there a way around this?
 *  [WPChina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpresschina/)
 * (@wordpresschina)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103087)
 * Right, I just found we too are having this extremely frustrating problem! Does
   anyone have a solution to creating multiple users with the same email address?
 *  [WPChina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpresschina/)
 * (@wordpresschina)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103090)
 * Sorry to bump, but this is a critical problem for me. Does anyone know if WordPress
   will be changing this or providing an option in the future to allow multiple 
   users with the same email address?
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103091)
 * [http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/allow-multiple-accounts/](http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/allow-multiple-accounts/)
   
   Works with me
 *  [WPChina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpresschina/)
 * (@wordpresschina)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103093)
 * Merci mercime! 😉
 * This does the trick!
 *  [WPChina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpresschina/)
 * (@wordpresschina)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103094)
 * Ah, wait… no, it does not work after we upgrade WP to Version 2.8.4…….
 * 5 minutes ago it was fine, but after the quick upgrade, it’s broken. 🙁
 *  [pagevm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pagevm/)
 * (@pagevm)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103097)
 * I don’t think you need to register multiple users under the same email. As an
   editor or an administrator, you can change the author for each post. When you
   are editing a post, scroll all the way to the bottom, as long as you have the
   appropriate permissions, you will see a block called “Post Author” with a drop-
   down list of all the possible authors. Just pick the one you want.
    As a manager
   of a multi-user site, I also find this plug-in invaluable: [http://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-user-switching/](http://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-user-switching/)
   It allows the administrator to switch to any of your users with a click, and 
   then switch back to the admin. Hope this helps.
 *  [WPChina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpresschina/)
 * (@wordpresschina)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103098)
 * Thanks [@pagevm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pagevm/), but this does 
   not solve our problem. In some instances we muct have multiple users with the
   same email address…. 🙁
 *  [WPChina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpresschina/)
 * (@wordpresschina)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103099)
 * Anyone have any thoughts on ways to add multiple users with the same email address?;(
 *  [ladylynnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladylynnet/)
 * (@ladylynnet)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103128)
 * So far as I can tell the “Coffee2Code” link up there is working great on my installation
   of 2.8.6. Only problem I ran into was a multiple email address error when trying
   to edit users’ accounts after they’d been created (to change roles, etc.) Fixed
   easily by commenting out lines 177-178 of /wp-admin/includes/user.php
 * (Thanks for posting [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/),
   I’ve been searching for something like this for a while!)

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## Tags

 * [email-address](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/email-address/)
 * [multiple users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multiple-users/)
 * [Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/registration/)

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-users-with-same-email-address/#post-1103128)
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