[wp-testers] page - author meta box

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

dd32.- added "another" user, which means then there were two both with 
author or higher level status.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dion Hulse (dd32)" <wordpress at dd32.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [wp-testers] page - author meta box


> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- 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
>>>
>>>
>>>  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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