{"id":990216,"date":"2015-07-25T04:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T11:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/duplicating-event-does-not-give-ownership-to-new-author-so-they-cannot-edit\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T10:13:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T17:13:23","slug":"duplicating-event-does-not-give-ownership-to-new-author-so-they-cannot-edit","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/duplicating-event-does-not-give-ownership-to-new-author-so-they-cannot-edit\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplicating event does not give ownership to new Author, so they cannot edit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I have created events as as admin to let Authors or Contributors use as templates to duplicate for ease of learning.<\/p>\n<p>However, when they create the duplicate event its ownership remains with me, so they cannot edit it.<\/p>\n<p>It would make more sense if the person duplicating the event became the owner \/ author.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way around this behaviour?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-990216","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Duplicating event does not give ownership to new Author, so they cannot edit -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/duplicating-event-does-not-give-ownership-to-new-author-so-they-cannot-edit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Duplicating event does not give ownership to new Author, so they cannot edit -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi. I have created events as as admin to let Authors or Contributors use as templates to duplicate for ease of learning. However, when they create the duplicate event its ownership remains with me, so they cannot edit it. It would make more sense if the person duplicating the event became the owner \/ author. 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I have created events as as admin to let Authors or Contributors use as templates to duplicate for ease of learning. However, when they create the duplicate event its ownership remains with me, so they cannot edit it. It would make more sense if the person duplicating the event became the owner \/ author. 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