Ollie Murphy

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:
<pre><code>if ( post_type_exists( 'product' ) ) {
 add_post_type_support( 'product', 'author' );
}
</code></pre>
However, for users who don’t want to touch the functions.php file, or would prefer a solution that is not restricted to a theme, I created this simple plugin. Just activate the plugin with WooCommerce also installed and you will be able to change the author of a product as if it were a standard post or page. 
After activating the plugin you will be able to change the author assigned to a WooCommerce product by editing the product in the WP dashboard. See screenshot for details.
If you do not see a place to change the author, check the screen options and make sure that ‘Author’ is checked. See screenshot for details.
<h4>Please note that WooCommerce must be installed and activated for the plugin to work.</h4>

Change Product Author for WooCommerce

Thanks Ollie! Perfect plugin, does exactly what it says.

Out of interest, any idea why Woo does not support author in core?

Perfect, as described

This makes it easy to change the author assigned to a WooCommerce product post type.

A. Jones

seancjones

Version 4.41
Free
Quickly and easily add a guest author to a post and link to the authors blog 
 Display guest author name in posts 
 Link author avatar 
 Quick Edit
Create a post and override the author name with one or more names or text. You can also create a link for the author name field, add a description and an email address for the gravatar.
Premium 
Sorry, we do not have the resources to manage sales and support right now. Our premium plugin should be available again in July 2020.
Additional Features: 
1) Re-use & save guest authors 
2) Upload guest author image 
3) Guest author archives 
4) Bulk edit guest authors in posts 
5) Add guest authors to custom posts and pages 
6) Easy Conversion process from our free version 
7) Still supports gravatar and custom urls 
8) Author list & Grid shortcodes 
9) Supports Custom posts and author in searches 
10) Elementor author archives 
11) Author box 
12) Filter posts by guest author 
13) Now with multiple byline authors (coauthors)! 
14) Now with shortcodes for author name, author link and author avatar
For quicker support, please visit the <a href="http://www.shooflysolutions.com/software/guest-author-name/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin page on the Shoofly Solutions web page</a>.
http://www.shooflysolutions.com/software/guest-author-name/ 
Donations for extended support are appreciated but are never required!
Please be kind and rate this plugin. Everything helps!
<h3>Need More?</h3>
Need more? Customization is available. Contact sales@shooflysolutions.com for more information.

(Simply) Guest Author Name

Create a post and override the author name with one or more names or text. You can also create a link for the author name field

Change Product Author for WooCommerce vs (Simply) Guest Author Name