No Author Dropdown Option…

  • tav1421

    (@tav1421)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Welp, I’m back, having moved my site from one host to another, and so far so, well interesting… For the life of me, pushing almost forty five minutes now (slightly embarrassed to admit that!) I cannot have a new user be able to post or edit a post. There’s only one option and that’s the admin, me.

    I add new users, nothing. I tried every role, nothing. Write between the body of the post and the post options on the bottom, was a handy little drop down menu that gave you the option to pick an author. I go to the general post page, and the author is all admin with again, no option to change or even start new.

    This is simple I’m sure, but I’ve googled the ever living daylight out of it and still, nothing. Seemingly I’m the only one to encounter this. So any help would be very much welcome for all this.

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  • lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    have you checked in the database tables to see if any users have been created?

    Thread Starter tav1421

    (@tav1421)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Lisa hi… No I haven’t, and I had to smile because it sounds somewhat complicated as opposed to how it was before. Before it was just there, I would create a new user, assign roles, and bam, it’d be there.

    Can’t imagine it’s because I’m with a new host though. Either way thank for the help, as I hope there’s a guide to what you’re suggesting, as I’m techy but clearly have my limits!

    Thread Starter tav1421

    (@tav1421)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Okay, so I think the problem is related to when I first install WP and or import an export file. When you get to the section after you submit the file to assign authors, you have a field for all the users already on the blog. For example;

    1. Import author: Test (Test)
    or create new user with login name: {empty field}
    or assign posts to an existing user: {drop down menu to select users}

    So no matter what I do or what option I go for, I’m still not able to do what I did before, which was to go into any post and have the option to change \ edit the author of that post. I talked with my host’s tech support and the only thing that can be done is to just create another user and log into that user and create the post that way.

    However with one of my sites I have multiple users that contributed to posts and they all say admin. So is the only option to recreate each post under their UN and never have the ability to edit?

    Please say that isn’t so! Or at the least, there’s a plugin for this issue.

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