[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #53909: User Level deprecated but still used?

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#53909: User Level deprecated but still used?
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 Reporter:  des79         |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  5.8
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 Hi there,

 I use custom_user_table on different wp installation that share the same
 user.
 I read that wp_user_level has deprecated in WordPress 3.0 but that's not
 quite true
 https://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels

 In my second wp installation I could not find the author select to change
 the author of a post so I debug code and I've found that in
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/5.8/src/wp-includes/class-wp-
 user-query.php#L322 if param who is defined, meta_query use user_level to
 select all users with user_level != 0

 In all my secondary wp installations I need to set {prefix}user_level for
 every single user so my question is: why user_level is set to deprecates
 if not so?

 Am I wrong?

 Thank you
 David

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