Authors missing from author dropdown list in post edit/quick edit

[sadekhm]

Some authors -either old or newly created authors- are missing from the list of authors in both the edit page and Quick edit.

After investigating this issue I found that users with wp_user_level set to 0 in wp_usermeta table don't appear in the list, after changing it from 0 to 2 they appeared on the list normally.

[jesin]

Hi sadekhm,

User Level 0 is a subscriber and subscribers are not allowed to create/edit posts.

​http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#User_Level_to_Role_Conversion
​http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Subscriber

[sadekhm]

Hello jesin,

I know that user level 0 is a subscriber, but it is assigned to a user who has a rule of author not a subscriber. no apparent reason why he gets user level of 0 tho he's an author. happened also with contributors.

Replying to jesin:

Hi sadekhm,

User Level 0 is a subscriber and subscribers are not allowed to create/edit posts.

​http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#User_Level_to_Role_Conversion
​http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Subscriber

[wonderboymusic]

I just created an author - all is good. It appears in both dropdowns. Perhaps re-save the user on the Edit User screen?