Create or edit post tag cloud says -1 with author account

I’m having the same issue. Are you using Role Manager? I am, and have been wondering if this could be part of the issue.

I’m not using Role Manager. It’s not browser specific either because I’ve tried Firefox, IE7, IE6 and Safari.

I just wanted to chime in that I am having the same issue. Everything works great for the administrator, but for the author the “Choose from the most popular tags” just gives a “-1” instead of the actual tags. I haven’t tried this with an editor account, but so far no one complained except the Authors.

I still haven’t been successful in fixing this issue. Authors (and a custom role I have set up) still continue to get “-1” instead of a list of tags. Anyone have any ideas?

It happens because of “manage categories” role. You need it to see the tags. So there are two solutions:
1) Add the role by Role Manager
2) Comment the role check in admin-ajax.php. These lines:

if ( !current_user_can( 'manage_categories' ) )
	die('-1');

it’s right after

case 'get-tagcloud' :

Thanks, hexello. I was able to fix this by adding the role in Role Manager, as you suggested. I appreciate your help!