Change Product Author for WooCommerce
This makes it easy to change the author assigned to a WooCommerce product post type.
5(7 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Change Product Author for WooCommerce is a WordPress author plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Edit Author Slug.
5/57 reviews
100active installs
8.7K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
WooCommerce requires at least: 2.2
WooCommerce tested up to: 2.4.12
While working on a project there was a situation where I needed to change the author assigned to a WooCommerce product. The product author was receiving unwanted notifications when reviews for the product were being left. We did not want to turn the notifications off; we just wanted them to go to a different author or user. Changing the author is easily possible with posts and pages, but the option isn’t available by default for WooCommerce products.
Adding the functionality is very simple – it involves adding author support to the product post type which can be accomplished by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file:
if ( post_type_exists( 'product' ) ) {
add_post_type_support( 'prod…Screenshots
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.2+ requiredTested up to 4.4.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial Release
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