[Resolved] Product author permission group

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[Paul]

I am trying to: Change the author of a product (standard woocommerce product type) to somebody who has registered on the website. I've set up a custom usergroup, which is based off the subscriber type. Customers can fill in a front-end form to create a product, which they will be then set as the author, but when i go to change to another registered user on the site i can only choose it to be another admin / author.

I purposely don't want my custom usergroup to have the 'author' permissions, because this would give them access to wp-admin and some of the dashboard. Is there a role / permission i can set for my custom group which makes them show up in the list of possible authors to change a product to?

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

I assume we are talking about the dropdown menu in metabox "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_subscriber_author_func', 10, 2);
 function assign_subscriber_author_func($query_args, $r){
    $query_arg['who'] = 'subscriber';
    return $query_arg;
}

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

[Paul]

Thank you, that worked perfectly 🙂