Change Author hack/plugin?

Same issue here – I accidentally wrote a bunch of posts as “Admin” when I should have been logged in as myself – now I don’t know how to change them back – any ideas out there?
Thanks
Rob

Well, seeing as it’s been two weeks and nobody’s even responded with so much as a “feh” I decided to muddle my way through and add it in myself. This is a total hack, and isn’t pretty by WP standards, but it works.
In /wp-admin/post.php, scroll down to case ‘edit’ and add the following after $post_title = addslashes($_POST[‘post_title’]);:
$post_author = $_POST['post_author'];
Scroll a little farther down to the UPDATE $tableposts query and add the following after post_status = ‘$post_status’,:
post_author = '$post_author',
Save and close.
Open /wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php and scroll down to the postpassworddiv fieldset, and add this in immediately following it:

<fieldset id="postauthordiv">
<legend><?php _e('Post Author') ?></legend>
<div>
<select name="post_author">
<?php
$authq = "select * from wp_users order by ID";
$authr = mysql_query($authq) or die(mysql_error());
while ($auth = mysql_fetch_array($authr)) {
echo '<option value="' . $auth['ID'] . '">' . $auth['user_nickname'] . '</option>';
}
?>
</select>
</div>
</fieldset>

Save and close.
Done.

Interesting — I just changed the author name in the database when i needed to, but that looks useful.

Thanks! Very useful. Much easier than working in the database!
Kaimi Wenger

A quick follow-up question — right now, any time I edit a thread, it wants to reassign the author as site admin. Can I change that?

Hmm… I suppose you could modify the dropdown menu to default to a different user each time. You’d have to hard-code it in, though:

<select name="post_author">
<!-- hard-coded default -->
<option value="X" selected="selected">Default User Name</option>
<!-- end default -->
<?php
$authq = "select * from wp_users order by ID";
$authr = mysql_query($authq) or die(mysql_error());
while ($auth = mysql_fetch_array($authr)) {
echo '<option value="' . $auth['ID'] . '">' . $auth['user_nickname'] . '</option>';
}
?>
</select>

See if that helps.

ive got the X-value:
<option value="<?php the_Author_ID() ?>" selected="selected"><?php the_author() ?></option>