[wp-testers] Problem with roles

[Handy]

I picked up this link from a quick search in the wordpress support forums (
http://wordpress.org/support)

http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/2007/01/28/wordpress-21-role-manager-plugin/


On 2/13/07, Karl Wångstedt <kalle at wangstedt.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> In my install of WP2.1 I use the Role manager plugin to assign
> special privileges for users. I recently built a site witch will
> feature quite a few contributors with separate logins. Therefore I
> created a new role with the plugin that had all the right privs.
>
> So far so good.
>
> But now I see that none of the users that has been assigned a role
> I've created show up in the author pull-down menu in the Manage->post
> panel. I can't see the users in the panel for the Draft control
> plugin or the Post control plugin ether.
>
> If I assign the users the Contributor standard role and then change
> the capabilities I see the users in the author list.
>
> After cheking the info in $wpdb->usermeta the only change I can see
> is the name of the role in the wp_capabilities meta_value.
>
> Is this a bug I've come upon, perhaps? If so, can I in some way solve
> it so that I can see all users in the author list?
>
> Thanks
> Karl Wångstedt
>
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