Taking over posts by another author?

  • Resolved cookiedude

    (@cookiedude)


    20 years, 5 months ago

    Hello everyone,
    I am somewhat new to all this and have the following problem:
    I used to run GreyMatter for my blog, but now decided to switch to WordPress.
    The problem is that my real name features a special character (Andr??) which WordPress seems to encode in a different way than GreyMatter, which resulted in all old GM posts being written by the user “Andr?” (according to WP anyway). I can’t login to that account, and I can’t remove it, since I’d lose all posts then. Is there any way to move ownership of these old posts to the new WP user?? The only other way I can think of is to manually copy all entries and post them under the new WP user account and then delete the GM account.
    Thanks in advance for your help!

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  • u have any experience working with phpmyadmin? it would take a single query!

    Thread Starter cookiedude

    (@cookiedude)

    No, I don’t. Where do I get it and what do I have to do? ??

    Your webhost should be able to provide you with access to phpMyAdmin, which is an application that lets you change the database values etc by pressing buttons…
    Log in to phpMyAdmin, and “browse” the users table. “update” the authors id for all posts to that of the new author.

    That could be due to your import file not being properly encoded. I ran into something similar with curly quotes, elipsis, etc. I just imported a MovableType file. On my windowsXP desktop, I opened the file in Notepad, re-saved at UTF-8, then imported to WP & the special characters came through fine

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