Title: change default user?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# change default user?

 *  [dzignerweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dzignerweb/)
 * (@dzignerweb)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-default-user/)
 * Is there any way to change the default user, I dont mean the user level. I mean,
   the user should be the default writer of new posts.

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 *  [irakrakow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irakrakow/)
 * (@irakrakow)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-default-user/#post-393304)
 * If you’re using Version 2.0+, if the user has the capability to publish posts,
   then the user is the writer of the post. See [Roles and Capabilities](http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities).
 * If you are an administrator, you can define the user’s role from the Admin Panel(
   Users-Authors & Users).
 * If your question is about changing the user ID of a post, you could run a MySQL
   UPDATE query on wp_posts. This is not how WordPress is intended to be used, so
   it’s kind of a back door.
 * If you want more detailed control over roles, look at [Owen Winkler’s Role Manager Plugin](http://asymptomatic.net/2005/12/31/2189/role-manager-plugin/).
 *  Thread Starter [dzignerweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dzignerweb/)
 * (@dzignerweb)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-default-user/#post-393586)
 * Hi
    What if I have more than one publisher? So who is the default writer? So 
   if I make only one user as publisher, so other users can write the post, but 
   cannot publish. Will the publisher then be the default writer or not?

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 * Last reply from: [dzignerweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dzignerweb/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-default-user/#post-393586)
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