Title: post_author doesn’t import
Last modified: December 4, 2017

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# post_author doesn’t import

 *  Resolved [alriknijdam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alriknijdam/)
 * (@alriknijdam)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_author-doesnt-import/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve been testing with this plugin to import topics and replys.
    Everything seems
   to work just fine except for one thing:
 * The post_author does not get imported to the database. It gets the value 0.
    
   eh_user_name and post_author are the same as in the database. I can’t seem to
   find out what is going wrong, can you please help me?
 * I’m using merge bbpress data to import.
 * csv for topics:
 *     ```
       ID,post_parent,post_author,eh_user_name,unix_time,post_date,post_content,post_title,post_status,comment_status,ping_status,post_name,post_type
       ,12515,72,Eerste,1165690617,9-12-2006 19:56,First test topic,First test topic,publish,open,open,First test topic,topic
       ,12515,73,Tweede,1165755385,10-12-2006 13:56,Second test topic,Second test topic,publish,open,open,Second test topic,topic
       ,12515,74,Derde,1167342357,28-12-2006 22:45,Third test topic,Third test topic,publish,open,open,Third test topic,topic
       ```
   
 * csv for replys:
 *     ```
       fp_id,post_parent,post_author,eh_user_name,unix_time,post_date,post_content,post_title,post_status,comment_status,ping_status,post_name,post_type
       1,12727,72,Eerste,1193585213,28-10-2007 16:26,Firt test reply in first test topic,,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       2,12727,73,Tweede,1193585479,28-10-2007 16:31,Second test reply in first test topic,,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       3,12727,74,Derde,1193586587,28-10-2007 16:49,Third test reply in first test topic (last),,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       4,12728,75,Vierde,1193586888,28-10-2007 16:54,Firt test reply in second test topic,,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       5,12728,76,Vijfde,1193587164,28-10-2007 16:59,Second test reply in second test topic,,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       6,12728,72,Eerste,1193587525,28-10-2007 17:05,Third test reply in second test topic (last),,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       7,12729,73,Tweede,1193588541,28-10-2007 17:22,Firt test reply in third test topic,,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       8,12729,74,Derde,1193588798,28-10-2007 17:26,Second test reply in third test topic,,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       9,12729,75,Vierde,1193588841,28-10-2007 17:27,Third test reply in third test topic (last),,publish,closed,closed,,reply
       ```
   
 * Best regards,
    Alrik

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 *  Thread Starter [alriknijdam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alriknijdam/)
 * (@alriknijdam)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_author-doesnt-import/#post-9752256)
 * I found the problem.
    It needs eh_user_email to import the post_author correctly

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