Wrong Authors on Posts

Can you demote (e.b change from Author to Subscriber role) and save, then promote each of your users? Does that solve it?

If the admin is not a user available when deciding to assign an author when writing a post:
1.Create new admin user (e.g. newadmin) with Administrator Role
2.Login as ‘newadmin’
3.Degrade the old ‘admin’ user to Role of Subscriber and Save
4.Promote the old ‘admin’ back to Administrator Role and Save
5.Login as the old ‘admin’

If that doesn’t work try:
1.Create a new admin user (e.g. newadmin) with Administrator Role
2.Login as ‘newadmin’
3.Delete the old ‘admin’ user and assign any posts to ‘newadmin’
4. Create ‘admin’ user with Administrator Role
5. Login as ‘admin’
6. Delete ‘newadmin’ user and assign posts to ‘admin’

Please make sure you do backup of your database.

Thanks for the quick reply. Before I spend the time on this I’m just curious if I explained the problem well enough. I don’t see how creating a new admin might do this, or even changing author roles.

It’s a difficult error to reproduce as it is so random.

Sometimes the page loads and the wrong authors are listed next to posts.

Then a refresh of the page fixes it.

It seems to me as if a DB join somewhere is going haywire.

I’ll try your suggestions if you think it still makes sense.

Thanks,

Marc

That’s why I started the sentence with IF–“If the admin is not a user available when deciding to assign an author when writing a post” so ignore that part if it doesn’t apply.

The issue has been reported on the forums and not sure what it is–so that’s why I suggested “Can you demote (e.b change from Author to Subscriber role) and save, then promote each of your users? Does that solve it?”

Have wondered if Trac Ticket 8317 is somehow related.