And here's a prime example of why: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16270
On 17 January 2011 11:29, Dion Hulse (dd32) <[email protected]> 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) <[email protected]>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@ >> gmail.com> >> To: <[email protected]> >> 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) >>> <[email protected]> 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. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> wp-testers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wp-testers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers >> > > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
