No longer able to see author role

Looks like its something to do with edit_posts permission, authors currently don’t have that permission. If I create a new role, then add edit_posts permission, people with that role are able to be selected as author.

Hi,

This is expected behavior starting from WordPress version 5.9.
Earlier versions extracted users who can be author via ‘get_users()’ function using ‘who=>authors’ argument. Finally user level not equal 0 was checked (more details).

WordPress 5.9 declared ‘who’ argument as deprecated

if ( isset( $qv['who'] ) && 'authors' === $qv['who'] && $blog_id ) {
			_deprecated_argument(
				'WP_User_Query',
				'5.9.0',
				sprintf(
					/* translators: 1: who, 2: capability */
					__( '%1$s is deprecated. Use %2$s instead.' ),
					'<code>who</code>',
					'<code>capability</code>'
				)
			);

and proposed to use ‘capability’ argument, like it does itself building authors dropdown list:

function post_author_meta_box( $post ) {
	global $user_ID;

	$post_type_object = get_post_type_object( $post->post_type );
	?>
<label class="screen-reader-text" for="post_author_override"><?php _e( 'Author' ); ?></label>
	<?php
	wp_dropdown_users(
		array(
			'capability'       => array( $post_type_object->cap->edit_posts ),
			'name'             => 'post_author_override',
			'selected'         => empty( $post->ID ) ? $user_ID : $post->post_author,
			'include_selected' => true,
			'show'             => 'display_name_with_login',
		)
	);
}

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Vladimir Garagulya.

Thanks for the update, @shinephp! Is this something that will be added to the next URE release?