[Resolved] Assign normal user as author of a custom post

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[martijnH]

I am using getawesomesupport.com as a ticket system. This plugin creates user roles such as: 'Support agent' and 'Support user'. With Toolset I created a CPT where I want to choose a 'support user' as the author. So I set this up while creating the CPT (see screenshot).

For your information: I wil use this CPT to add spend hours on work. With the solution on https://toolset.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-sum-of-custom-field/ I want to give a cumulate view of spend ours for a specific 'support user'. Thats why I want to assign a support user to my CPT.

When writing a new post for this CPT I expect to choose all (10) users. Instead I only see 3 'Support agent'. Probaly because 'Support users' have the same rights as users and 'Support agent' as writers and therefore are not in my author selectbox..

I suppose I can use Access to set the authorisations so I can also choose the support users as author. How can I do this? I know I have to give support users some authorisations to edit/create posts, but I will take care they only have access to the frontend.

Thanks!

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

I assume we are talking about the dropdown menu of post author "Author".

Could you please try to add following code to your current theme's functions.php file and try to resolve your issue.

add_filter('wp_dropdown_users_args', 'assign_any_author_func', 10, 2);
 function assign_subscriber_author_func($query_args, $r){
     $query_arg['who'] = 'any';
    return $query_arg;
}

This will dispaly 'any' (all) user with author dropdown. However - you can change the 'any' value as per your requirement. For more info on that please visit following link:

More info:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/post_author_meta_box/

[martijnH]

Great! Exactly what i needed. Thanks for your support.