[wp-testers] page - author meta box

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

And here's a prime example of why:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16270

On 17 January 2011 11:29, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> Thats how it's supposed to work.
> The author dropdown only lists Author-level users, not every user. (I think
> that's Authors, Contributors, Editors and Administrators.. But would have to
> check the code to be sure)
> Otherwise on large installs we'd be listing potentially thousands of users
> in the list.. Which doesn't scale.
>
> On 17 January 2011 03:37, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net>wrote:
>
>> Added another user to the subsite, it was set to subsciber -> no change
>> Changed that additional user to have author -> shows up.
>>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sergey Biryukov" <sergeybiryukov.ru@
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>> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 12:17 AM
>> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] page - author meta box
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>>  On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
>>> <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> tested with twenty-ten theme no-plugins w/multisite, editing a page the
>>>> author meta box enabled in the screen options, is not populating with any
>>>> data to select an author, the meta box shows, just nothing populates in it
>>>> when there is only 1 user
>>>>
>>>> when there are multiple users in the database it does show dropdown with
>>>> more users to choose from, otherwise with just 1 user it's just an empty
>>>> author box without any dropdown selection available
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you tried 3.1-RC2-17315? Can't reproduce an empty box there.
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