Edit an event without taking over authorship

[Brian]

I want to be able to make a small change to a community event submitted by a user without taking over authorship.

Whenever I edit an event as an admin, it takes over authorship and then there is no way to put it back. This shouldn’t be the case.

How can I edit while leaving the authorship as is?

Thank you.

[George]

Hey @Brian,

Thanks for reaching out. To be clear, are these community-submitted events anonymous submissions?

Or do you require users to be logged-in to your site to submit events?

Thank you,
George

[Brian]

What the hell. I thought for sure I replied to this…

Yes, these are community submitted events from logged in users. I don’t have any non-logged in users submitting events. Creating an account is a requirement.

[George]

Hey Brian,

Thanks for clarifying this! I do not find the exact same behavior, but regardless, since these are submitted by users with user accounts on your site you can change the Author by ensuring the “author” screen options checkbox is visible in the event edit screen.

You can ensure this by clicking the “Screen Options” tab in the top right of the edit-event screen, and checking the “Author” checkbox if it’s not already checked. Here’s a screenshot of this for reference:

This should reveal an “Author” metabox where you can specify the author.

I hope this helps!
George

[Brian]

This is a BuddyPress site with over 1000 members. BuddyPress users do not show in the author dropdown on the post edit screen so there is no way for me to change authorship back to them.

Thank you. Any more ideas?

[George]

Hey Brian,

Thank you for revealing this—we have no specific compatibility with BuddyPress and so that could be part of the problem here. I will have to take some time to investigate if this is the case, but just wanted to note this.

Thank you for your patience here!
George

[Brian]

I am aware. Thank you for looking into this.

[George]

Thanks for your patience Brian — stay tuned! 🙂

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