Title: Author migration
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Author migration

 *  [digitalisfun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalisfun/)
 * (@digitalisfun)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-migration/)
 * Hi
 * Hoping someone can confirm how authors work when migrating posts from an existing
   site to a brand new site with no existing authors (users).
 * I’m importing content from an existing site to a new site with no users except
   an admin account and want to ensure that the original authors are kept in place
   for existing posts. Do I need to setup the authors on the new site first or does
   the importer take care of this (and map the posts to the correct authors) too?
 * Thanks!
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