I am having trouble seeing where I can add the user as the "author" of the post when published. Currently it only adds the admin as the author of the post. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
What I would like is for the user who submits the content be the author of the post. Thank you for helping and I apologize for any redundancies .
The form in question is http://www.thehendricksonpost.com/your-pets-eulogy
On your post title or post body field, one of the options available should be related to the author of the post. It will show Default Post author, and under that, it will say "Use Logged in user as author". Make sure that it is checked.
Thank you @David. I made sure that was clicked but it is still coming in as admin on the posts.
The user is logged in when submitting the post, and it is still coming through as admin?
No sorry the user is not logged in when writing the post. Sorry for leaving that out. Is there a way for a user "name" field be used as the author?
If the user is not logged in, then they won't be the author. You can display their name in the place where the author would normally be shown, but that will be done in your template. You would not display the actual author of the post (admin) but instead just display the name they submitted when filling out the form. Edit your template to remove the references to the real author of the post, and instead display their name. I would store their name in a custom field, then pull that custom field into your template.
