[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16841: Manually created user roles not showing in author dropdown regardless of assigned capabilities

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#16841: Manually created user roles not showing in author dropdown regardless of
assigned capabilities
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 Reporter:  10sexyapples                  |       Owner:  swissspidy
     Type:  defect (bug)                  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Role/Capability               |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal                        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch needs-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by jdorner):

 I believe the cause of the issue is the post_author_meta_box() method in
 /wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php is calling wp_dropdown_users() with
 'who' => 'authors'.
 Which calls get_users with 'who' => 'authors' which calls WP_User_Query
 with 'who' => 'authors'.

 {{{
 SELECT [[wp_]users.ID,[wp_]users.user_login,[wp_]users.display_name FROM
 [wp_]users INNER JOIN [wp_]usermeta ON ( [wp_]users.ID =
 [wp_]usermeta.user_id ) WHERE 1=1 AND (
   ( [wp_]usermeta.meta_key = '[wp_]user_level' AND
 [wp_]usermeta.meta_value != '0' )
 ) ORDER BY display_name ASC
 }}}

 Why is WP_User_Query still using the deprecated field '[wp_]user_level'?

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