Title: Wrong Authors on Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Wrong Authors on Posts

 *  [citypaper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citypaper/)
 * (@citypaper)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-authors-on-posts/)
 * More and more frequently when a blog page loads it has the wrong authors next
   to posts. A refresh of the page fixes the problem.
 * I’ve been searching but can’t find any issues out there like this. I’ve optimized
   any overhead in the mysql tables, but can’t think of anything else to do.
 * Any ideas out there?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-authors-on-posts/#post-911082)
 * Can you demote (e.b change from Author to Subscriber role) and save, then promote
   each of your users? Does that solve it?
 * If the admin is not a user available when deciding to assign an author when writing
   a post:
    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’
 * Please make sure you do backup of your database.
 *  Thread Starter [citypaper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citypaper/)
 * (@citypaper)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-authors-on-posts/#post-911124)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. Before I spend the time on this I’m just curious 
   if I explained the problem well enough. I don’t see how creating a new admin 
   might do this, or even changing author roles.
 * It’s a difficult error to reproduce as it is so random.
 * Sometimes the page loads and the wrong authors are listed next to posts.
 * Then a refresh of the page fixes it.
 * It seems to me as if a DB join somewhere is going haywire.
 * I’ll try your suggestions if you think it still makes sense.
 * Thanks,
 * Marc
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-authors-on-posts/#post-911130)
 * That’s why I started the sentence with IF–“If the admin is not a user available
   when deciding to assign an author when writing a post” so ignore that part if
   it doesn’t apply.
 * The issue has been reported on the forums and not sure what it is–so that’s why
   I suggested “Can you demote (e.b change from Author to Subscriber role) and save,
   then promote each of your users? Does that solve it?”
 * Have wondered if [Trac Ticket 8317](http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8317) is
   somehow related.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-authors-on-posts/#post-911130)
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