Title: [Plugin: RSS Importer] Adding authors – solution
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: RSS Importer] Adding authors – solution

 *  [ollybenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ollybenson/)
 * (@ollybenson)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rss-importer-adding-authors-solution/)
 * Hi,
 * This question has been asked before but I’ve got a solution.
 * Open the rss-importer.php and find the line that says
 * `$post_author = 1`
 * And replace with this code:
 *     ```
       preg_match('|<dc:creator>(.*?)</dc:creator>|is', $post, $get_post_author);
       				$post_author_name = sanitize_user($wpdb->escape( html_entity_decode( trim( $get_post_author[1] ) ) ));
       			$post_author = username_exists( $post_author_name );
       			if (!$post_author) {
       					$random_password = wp_generate_password( $length=12, $include_standard_special_chars=false );
       					$post_author = wp_create_user( $post_author_name, $random_password, $post_author_name."@xxxxxxx.com");
       					}
       ```
   
 * It’ll create a new user for each distinct username passed, with a fake email 
   address.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-importer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-importer/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rss-importer-adding-authors-solution/)
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