Title: Stop authors from syndicated posts being added as users
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Stop authors from syndicated posts being added as users

 *  Resolved [Modifiedcontent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modifiedcontent/)
 * (@modifiedcontent)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-feedwordpress-from-adding-users-to-wordpress/)
 * FeedWordPress seems to automatically add authors from syndicated posts as users
   to WordPress – probably standard WP behavior. That totally messes up the “members
   list” on my multisite-based community website.
 * Is there any way to turn that behavior off?
 * Or if the author for some reason has to be in the system, to replace the name
   with the user who’s blog is syndicating that post?
 * I’ll probably have to dig into the code to find a fix. Which parts of the plugin
   should I look into? Which bit of FeedWordpress code adds these random authors
   to the system?
 * Or is this standard WP behavior? Is there a piece of code that doublechecks if
   a post’s author is in the system and “helpfully” adds him is he is “missing”?
   Where?
 * Is there a way to generally block any possibility for scripts to add users? Only
   users who actually registered themselves should be in the system.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/)

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 *  [lysofttech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lysofttech/)
 * (@lysofttech)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-feedwordpress-from-adding-users-to-wordpress/#post-3183614)
 * You have to change the author settings on the syndicated post to your blog as
   opposed to creating a new author when its syndicated
 *  Thread Starter [Modifiedcontent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modifiedcontent/)
 * (@modifiedcontent)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-feedwordpress-from-adding-users-to-wordpress/#post-3183618)
 * Thanks lysofttech. Where can I change those author settings? Somewhere in FeedWordpress?
   Or in WordPress?
 * If it is a setting per feed or even per post it is still no good. Would there
   be a way to set this by default with a filter/function in the theme’s function.
   php?
 * What mechanism is ‘creating a new author’? I want to disable that entirely. There
   should only be registered users/members on the system, no authors created by 
   the system.
 *  Thread Starter [Modifiedcontent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modifiedcontent/)
 * (@modifiedcontent)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-feedwordpress-from-adding-users-to-wordpress/#post-3183660)
 * Solutions here:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-authors-of-syndicated-posts-being-added-as-users](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-authors-of-syndicated-posts-being-added-as-users)
 * I reposted my question to open it up beyond just FeedWordPress, but [radgeek](http://wordpress.org/support/profile/radgeek)‘
   s solution is FeedWordPress specific.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-feedwordpress-from-adding-users-to-wordpress/#post-3183660)
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