Title: author problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# author problems

 *  [bnard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bnard/)
 * (@bnard)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-problems-1/)
 * when writing a new post, there is a dropdown of authors under Post Authors. in
   a way, i can post and use a different author/user name
 * can this be automate depending on your user login?

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 *  [Hyper123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hyper123/)
 * (@hyper123)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-problems-1/#post-737237)
 * It should default to the user you are currently logged in as and that drop down
   is if you want to make someone else the owner of a post.

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## Tags

 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/)
 * [user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Hyper123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hyper123/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-problems-1/#post-737237)
 * Status: not resolved

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