Title: Replace post_type with custom taxonomy
Last modified: January 1, 2022

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# Replace post_type with custom taxonomy

 *  Resolved [saniol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saniol/)
 * (@saniol)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-post_type-with-custom-taxonomy/)
 * I have created a custom taxonomy called “authors,” so that I can change the author
   of a post. Everything works great, except in my rss feed and a few other places,
   my name shows as author (since I am the logged in user) instead of my custom 
   author. How do I change the post_author to my custom taxonomy globally?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-post_type-with-custom-taxonomy/#post-15210674)
 * Not really something we have control over, like if you’re referring to bylines
   and whatnot when viewing posts. You’ll need to check on your active theme and
   the templates used to change out uses of `the_author()` and whatnot and replace
   with code that will fetch the term used for the chosen author in this taxonomy.
 * Same thing with the RSS feed detail, but I’d need to check on how to potentially
   do that more, as I haven’t really customized feeds that much in the recent past.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-post_type-with-custom-taxonomy/#post-15210674)
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