Clone role affects possibility to change an author

Hi @lindt01

Thank you for reporting this.

I wasn’t able to duplicate this issue on my local installation but I’ve asked our Developer for investigating this issue. We’ll let you know once we finish tests.

Cheers

Hi Caseproof,

Thanks a lot for your fast response. I will wait in patience for the results of your developer.

Best regards,
Ger

We investigated this issue further and we couldn’t find any issues with Classic Editor. In Gutenberg, the Author dropdown is populated through a query to the REST API to fetch the authors. You’ll need to modify the REST query to add in the correct users. Please try to use this code:

add_filter( 'rest_user_query', 'my_custom_rest_authors', 25, 2 );
/**
 * Modifies the "authors" included in the REST response for /wp/v2/users/?who=authors
 *
 * @param  array 	$args    	Query args
 * @param  object 	$request 	REST request
 *
 * @return array
 */
function my_custom_rest_authors( $args, $request ) {
	
	if ( ! empty( $request['who'] ) && 'authors' === $request['who'] ) {

		// Customize which roles are considered authors
		$rest_author_roles = array();

		// Get registered roles
		$roles = wp_roles();

		// Check each role for the edit_posts capability
		// Change this as needed
		foreach ( $roles->roles as $key => $r ) {
			$role = $roles->get_role( $key );
			if ( $role->has_cap( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
				$rest_author_roles[] = $key;
			}
		}
		
		$args['role__in'] = array_merge( ! empty( $args['role__in'] ) ? $args['role__in'] : array(), $rest_author_roles );
		$args['who'] = '';
	}

	return $args;
}

Cheers

Hi @caseproof,

Thanks a lot for investigating. When I paste the above code in my child theme functions.php it works alright in Gutenberg. I can choose both users as the page/post author.0

However in the Classic Editor and in Quick Edit I can only choose the administrator as the author? In my opinion there is still something not OK?

Kind regards,
Ger

I switched to Classic Editor and I can choose Administrators, Editors, and Authors. I don’t see Cloned Editor but that’s because WordPress doesn’t display custom roles by default.

Cheers