Title: Override Author?
Last modified: July 15, 2017

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# Override Author?

 *  Resolved [isensmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isensmith/)
 * (@isensmith)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/override-author/)
 * I have postie working through a Contact Form 7 form and i want to have a field
   for the person using the form to specify who they are. I’d like that data to 
   specify the author of the post in wp. Since the form submissions are always coming
   to postie with the same email address i’m not able to specify author in the regular
   way (sender’s email). Is there a way to override the post author setting?
    thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/override-author/#post-9334511)
 * You will need to use the Postie hooks (likely postie_post_before) to parse the
   message for the CF7 data then create a WordPress user then update the post_author
   element of the $post array to the new user.
    See [http://postieplugin.com/postie_post_before/](http://postieplugin.com/postie_post_before/)

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 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/override-author/#post-9334511)
 * Status: resolved