Title: Author changes automatically when editing posts
Last modified: August 11, 2025

---

# Author changes automatically when editing posts

 *  Resolved [oscarviedmaweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarviedmaweb/)
 * (@oscarviedmaweb)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-automatically-when-editing-posts/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m using your _Frontend Post Submission Manager_ plugin so that users can submit
   custom posts from the frontend (in my case, a CPT called “Cards”).
 * I’ve noticed an issue:
   When a user (subscriber role) submits a Card from the 
   frontend, it is correctly assigned to their account. However, if I, as an administrator,
   edit that Card from the WordPress admin panel, the `post_author` is automatically
   changed to the administrator, even if I don’t make any changes related to the
   author.
 * This causes:
    - The Card to disappear from the subscriber’s dashboard (because they are no
      longer the author).
 * This is not the default behavior in WordPress, since normally editing a post 
   should not change the author unless it is modified manually.
 * Could you please review this behavior and adjust the plugin so that the `post_author`
   is only assigned when creating the post, and not changed when editing it? This
   would prevent posts from being reassigned to the administrator when edited.
 * Thank you in advance for your help.
 * Best regards
    -  This topic was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by [oscarviedmaweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarviedmaweb/).

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  Plugin Support [aacesc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aacesc/)
 * (@aacesc)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-automatically-when-editing-posts/#post-18595044)
 * Hello [@oscarviedmaweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarviedmaweb/) 
   
   Thank you for writing to us. It seems you are using our PRO version for which
   we have different support channel. Can you please send us your query from contact
   form available in the below link and we will reply from another support channel.
   [PRO Support ](https://codecanyon.net/user/wpshuffle#contact)Thanks.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Author changes automatically when editing posts’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/assets/icon-256x256.
   png?rev=3524154)
 * [Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite - Frontend Posting WordPress Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/reviews/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [aacesc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aacesc/)
 * Last activity: [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-automatically-when-editing-posts/#post-18595044)
 * Status: resolved