Title: Setting Author for Posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Setting Author for Posts

 *  [Mark Burgess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markburgess/)
 * (@markburgess)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-author-for-posts/)
 * All of the posts come in as coming from the sysadmin. How do we change the author?
 * Mark
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/post-by-email/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/post-by-email/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Kat Hagan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codebykat/)
 * (@codebykat)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-author-for-posts/#post-4552439)
 * Hi,
 * Are you sending the emails from an email address that belongs to someone other
   than the sysadmin? Does that email address belong to someone who has author permissions
   on the site?
 * The way the plugin works is, it compares the sending email address to the accounts
   on the WordPress site, and if there’s a match AND the user in question has posting
   rights, the author will get set to that person. If there’s not a match, it gets
   set to the admin (and set as “pending” instead of “published”). My first guess
   would be that the latter is happening — the email address you’re sending from
   isn’t getting matched as a WP user.
 * To double-check, go to the profile for the non-admin user and verify that their
   email address is the same one you’re sending FROM.
 *  Thread Starter [Mark Burgess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markburgess/)
 * (@markburgess)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-author-for-posts/#post-4552446)
 * Yes, that worked. Thanks.
 * Is there a format required for attachment? I sent a jpeg and it shows a broken
   image. Also, is there a way to make that the featured image (or not) for the 
   post?
 * Lastly how do I decrease the polling time for new messages…

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Burgess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markburgess/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-author-for-posts/#post-4552446)
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