Title: wrong author error please help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wrong author error please help

 *  [youtubefreak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/youtubefreak/)
 * (@youtubefreak)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-author-error-please-help/)
 * my version is 2.1 ..
    everything was fine and my friend signed up at my blog 
   with author permission – she wrote a few posts – then i logged in today as an
   admin and try to post and her name keeps showing up as the author of my posts,
   i have to keep putting her account as a subscriber for my name to show on my 
   own posts… btw we’re on different computers
 * please help

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 *  [outhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outhere/)
 * (@outhere)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-author-error-please-help/#post-523479)
 * I just had a problem like this as well.
 * A friend just subscribed, then I changed his role to Author. Now when I log in
   as admin and post, it attributes the post to him.
 * any ideas on this?
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-author-error-please-help/#post-523480)
 * Try clearing your browser’s cache.
 *  [outhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outhere/)
 * (@outhere)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-author-error-please-help/#post-523481)
 * did that multiple times. also logged out, shut down, restarted, logged back in
   and same thing??!?!
 *  [outhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outhere/)
 * (@outhere)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-author-error-please-help/#post-523486)
 * Update: the Post Author box in the Create New Post option of the admin panel 
   was selecting a user other than me when i posted.
 * the problem seems to have happened when i typed in a nickname for myself in my
   profile (instead of “admin” showing when i post). for some reason the Post Author
   box didn’t register my nickname.
 * When i erased my nickname so that I am only known as admin, the Post Author box
   had “admin” as a possible selection.
 * so the original problem is fixed.
 * now the question is what is the nickname snafu?
 *  [outhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outhere/)
 * (@outhere)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-author-error-please-help/#post-523487)
 * Update: the Post Author box in the Create New Post option of the admin panel 
   was selecting a user other than me when i posted.
 * the problem seems to have happened when i typed in a nickname for myself in my
   profile (instead of “admin” showing when i post). for some reason the Post Author
   box didn’t register my nickname.
 * When i erased my nickname so that I am only known as admin, the Post Author box
   had “admin” as a possible selection.
 * so the original problem is fixed.
 * now the question is what is the nickname snafu?

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last activity: [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-author-error-please-help/#post-523487)
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