[Resolved] Custom Role cannot be assigned as author for posts

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[ChuckGregory]

Tell us what you are trying to do? I want each user of custom role 'member' to own their own custom post of type 'member'

Is there any documentation that you are following? i read all the access documentation

Is there a similar example that we can see?

What is the link to your site? hidden link
This page should be owned by Roots Family Farm Shop but they aren't listed in author dropdown when editing

Note: I'm working on this site as a toolset contractor.

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Well - have you activated the "Author" checkbox option by editing your custom post type under section "Sections to display when editing member"? If no: could you please activate that checkbox and save your post type and try to resolve your issue.

[ChuckGregory]

Thanks, Minesh, but you misunderstood the problem. The dropdown does show up, but only the three admin accounts are listed as options to be 'author' of the member posts.
I'm sure it's related to the capabilities I've assigned to the custom role I defined, but I don't know what I need to add to make users with that role available as 'author' for posts.
Thanks.

[Minesh]

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/

[ChuckGregory]

Perfect! I think I had to do this on another site last year, but I did not remember the trick. Much appreciated.