Custom roles missing from post author dropdown

[archon810]

We have a site with about 15 active publishing users, and in Wordpress 3.6, the dropdown for post author is now missing people from any custom roles I've defined (Senior Editor and others) using ​http://wordpress.org/plugins/members, a pretty standard plugin for creating new user roles.

I tried both the Quick Edit and Edit screens.

I'm fairly sure this worked before, though I'm not 100% sure.

Additionally, posting a test post using xmlrpc (via Windows Live Writer) and selecting one of the people in custom roles works fine, so to me this looks like a bug.

[rachelbaker]

The Post Author box lists users with a user_meta "user_level" value set to 2 or higher (matching roles of Author or above).

The Members plugin just sets "user_level" value to 0, meaning no matter how many capabilities you give a custom role created, the user level matches the Subscriber role. Ideally the Members plugin should allow you to set a relative user level to appropriately match the custom role you are creating.

This would be within the plugin authors ability to fix, and not WordPress.

[ocean90]

Duplicate of #16841.

[swissspidy]

For anyone stumbling upon this ticket, using add_filter( 'members_remove_old_levels', '__return_false' ); should do the trick when using the Members plugin.