Title: Author Changes When Editing
Last modified: March 25, 2024

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# Author Changes When Editing

 *  [levihe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/levihe/)
 * (@levihe)
 * [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/)
 * So the issue is this. I manage 7 multi-author sites. When I go to edit a post
   by one of the authors, the post will sometimes switch to me. It doesn’t happen
   100% of the time only sumetimes. It happens in the saving process and there are
   many cases I won’t realize this has happened untill much later. The issue has
   been going on for months and on all 7 sites.
   Any help would be apreciated

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/#post-17527375)
 * Which editor do you use to edit the pages? Is it the same for all websites?
 *  Thread Starter [levihe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/levihe/)
 * (@levihe)
 * [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/#post-17527752)
 * Yep, Gutenberg for all of them.
 *  Thread Starter [levihe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/levihe/)
 * (@levihe)
 * [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/#post-17533803)
 * Bump
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/#post-17536489)
 * I’ve been testing this for a while now and unfortunately I can’t reproduce it.
   You write yourself that it only happens from time to time and not always. That
   makes it difficult to reproduce.
 * Do you also have the problem if you deactivate all plugins? These could interfere
   here.
 * The theme can also influence this. If all pages use the same theme, that would
   be another indication.
 *  [tablediver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tablediver/)
 * (@tablediver)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/#post-18016725)
 * I have this exact same issue – also running a site with multiple authors – and
   after making some updates to existing posts, from time to time it happens that
   the original author is changed to me.
 * After some testing I was able to reproduce the behaviour:
 * It only happens if from within the posts I am making changes to one of the included,
   synchronized ‘reusable blocks’. It does not happen if I change some of the regular
   content.
 * Any ideas how to prevent this from happening? It’s quite annoying because I have
   to double-check after making changes, that the author is still intact.
    -  This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by [tablediver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tablediver/).
    -  This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by [tablediver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tablediver/).
    -  This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by [tablediver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tablediver/).
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/#post-18016935)
 * [@tablediver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tablediver/): please create
   your own topic for your own issue [according the guidelines](https://wordpress.org/support/forum-user-guide/faq/#i-have-the-same-problem-can-i-just-reply-to-someone-elses-post-with-me-too)
   for the forums: [https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/#new-topic-0](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/#new-topic-0)
 *  [tablediver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tablediver/)
 * (@tablediver)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/#post-18017069)
 * [@threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) thanks, I created a 
   [new topic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-updating-reusable-blocks)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [tablediver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tablediver/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-changes-when-editing/#post-18017069)
 * Status: not resolved

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