Title: Post Author bug
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Post Author bug

 *  Resolved [tuponlol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuponlol/)
 * (@tuponlol)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-author-bug/)
 * Hey guys, whenever I author a post on my site (www.blueseatblogs.com), it comes
   up as from a different author. I’m the admin of the page, and my display name
   is listed as Dave. However, whenever I post, it comes up as a different author(
   Mike).
 * Interestingly enough, when I tried to change it manually by editing the post 
   author, my name doesn’t even come up as a choice.
 * Any ideas? Thanks.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-author-bug/#post-948844)
 * > Interestingly enough, when I tried to change it manually by editing the post
   > author, my name doesn’t even come up as a choice.
 * This is one avenue that usually fixes that problem:
    1.Create new admin user (
   e.g. newadmin) with Administrator Role 2.Login as ‘newadmin’ 3.Degrade the old‘
   admin’ user to Role of Subscriber and Save 4.Promote the old ‘admin’ back to 
   Administrator Role and Save 5.Login as the old ‘admin’
 * If that doesn’t work try:
    1.Create a new admin user (e.g. newadmin) with Administrator
   Role 2.Login as ‘newadmin’ 3.Delete the old ‘admin’ user and assign any posts
   to ‘newadmin’ 4. Create ‘admin’ user with Administrator Role 5. Login as ‘admin’
   6. Delete ‘newadmin’ user and assign posts to ‘admin’
 *  Thread Starter [tuponlol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuponlol/)
 * (@tuponlol)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-author-bug/#post-948847)
 * That worked. Thanks a bunch.

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 * [admin_author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin_author/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [tuponlol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuponlol/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-author-bug/#post-948847)
 * Status: resolved

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