User Level deprecated but still used?

[des79]

Hi there,

I use custom_user_table on different wp installation that share the same user.
I read that wp_user_level has deprecated in WordPress 3.0 but that's not quite true
​https://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels

In my second wp installation I could not find the author select to change the author of a post so I debug code and I've found that in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/5.8/src/wp-includes/class-wp-user-query.php#L322 if param who is defined, meta_query use user_level to select all users with user_level != 0

In all my secondary wp installations I need to set {prefix}user_level for every single user so my question is: why user_level is set to deprecates if not so?

Am I wrong?

Thank you
David

[swissspidy]

Hi there,

Thanks for opening this ticket and welcome to WordPress Trac!

user_level is indeed deprecated but unfortunately still used in that place. We're tracking this in #16841.

[des79]

Thank you @swissspidy, Sorry, I tried to search the forum before posting but this thread was not out to me.

I move there