How Co-Authors Plus stores information in the database

They’re stored as terms. Each user has an associated term in the author taxonomy based on their username.

SO if my username was kylehardgrave, I would have a term for the author taxonomy called kylehardgrave. To add authors to posts, you just assign their associated terms to the post. If you’re going to do a bulk import, you can probably use the add_coauthors function, e.g.

$post_id = 1;
$authors = array( 'kylehardgrave', 'anotheruser' );
global $coauthors_plus;
$coauthors_plus->add_coauthors( $post_id, $authors );

Hope that helps.

Hello, can you explain exactly how you’d use this function? I that you’d run something like the following:

function add_my_coathor() {
$post_id = 1;
$authors = array( 'kylehardgrave', 'anotheruser' );
global $coauthors_plus;
$coauthors_plus->add_coauthors( $post_id, $authors );
}

But where exactly do you run it? I’ve used the INSERT INTO and WHERE commands in MySQL to perform this kind of modification but I don’t understand how you’d run a PHP function. Do you just need to include it functions.php once?

Also, what if I want to remove the previous author first? By default, my bulk imported posts have an admin is the author.

Thanks Mohammad, that helps.

Jamil, you could either write a PHP script and run it by accessing it from the browser or by setting it up to run when you hit a button. You could also just use the info to help you write your SQL statements.