{"id":1007945,"date":"2015-09-23T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/setting-default-author-for-community-event-submissions\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:56:32","slug":"setting-default-author-for-community-event-submissions","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/setting-default-author-for-community-event-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting default author for community event submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have seen a couple of similar threads with no resolution (other than suggesting submitting a &#8220;add this feature&#8221; request). Issue is that there is no way to set the &#8220;default&#8221; author for community event submissions. As a result, the default author assigned is the first author in the WP user list. We would like to set the default author to our admin user. 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