Title: User mapping doesn&#8217;t work
Last modified: November 6, 2020

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# User mapping doesn’t work

 *  [pompos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pompos/)
 * (@pompos)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-mapping-doesnt-work/)
 * When importing custom post type it always assigns current user as author, regardless
   of selected user in the mapping settings. Really disappointing.

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