Non Admin Users showing when deleting admin user.

[digamberpradhan]

When deleting a user with role of administrator. The option to "attribute all content to" dropdown will list all users (even subscribers)

Steps to repeat:
Create 2 users:

• Create a new user with the role subscriber
• Create a new user with the role administrator
• Add a post with the new adminstrative user,
• then delete the new adminstrative user

The option to assign / "attribute all content" to will show all available users.

[Presskopp]

I don't know why this would be considered as a bug. Why should it only be possible to transfer to another admin? However this function is already discussed in #58103

[digamberpradhan]

@Presskopp subscribers wouldn't / shouldn't be able to add posts or be author of posts ?
Or am i missing something here ?

Additionally there isn't a limit of users being queried so lets say a site has a 120,000 users then all of the users are being listed.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi there, thanks for the ticket!

Replying to digamberpradhan:

subscribers wouldn't / shouldn't be able to add posts or be author of posts ?
Or am i missing something here ?

Usually not, but there might be use cases for attributing posts to users who are not an admin, including subscribers.

Additionally there isn't a limit of users being queried so lets say a site has a 120,000 users then all of the users are being listed.

This part is being tracked in #19867.

[ianatkins]

Agree with the original poster, with large number of users this view becomes unusable.

An additional prior field for user role or capability could filter the list of users - making the list more manageable but also usable for situations where you may (oddly) want to attribute content to a user without publishing rights.