Title: Author Search Problems
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Author Search Problems

 *  [nytx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nytx/)
 * (@nytx)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-search-problems/)
 * Hello,
 * I am running WP 3.8 with Co-Authors Plus 3.0.6:
 * Thanks for developing such a useful plugin.
 * I have a database with with about 130,000 user accounts. When I try to search
   for an author I can’t tell if it is just taking a long time because of the high
   column of users or if something is broken.
 * Searching for an author is very slow and usually finds the same three or four
   authors but never others.
 * When searching I am searching by `display_name`.
 * I’d really like to take advantage of the benefits your plugin offers.
 * Do you know what might be causing the problem I am having?
 * Of the 130,000 users about 9,000 have the user role `author`. Could we limit 
   the search somehow to the subset of `author` only? Would that solve my problem?
 * Thank you!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/)

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 *  [Animalejourbano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/animalejourbano/)
 * (@animalejourbano)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-search-problems/#post-4429217)
 * I’m having the same problem with just 140 users, It have to be something else…
 *  [CAShadle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cashadle/)
 * (@cashadle)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-search-problems/#post-4429334)
 * Same problem here with roughly 200 users. When searching, a number of users just
   don’t show up in the Co-Author search box, yet they work just fine with Co-Authors
   disabled.
 *  [Animalejourbano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/animalejourbano/)
 * (@animalejourbano)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-search-problems/#post-4429335)
 * It seams to be a “role” and “capabilities” problem. You have to make shure that
   the users have the capability to write and publish the post type you want to.
   I’ve been using a plugin to define the user capabilities and mess this up. After
   check that, Co-authors plus works just fine for me.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Animalejourbano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/animalejourbano/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-search-problems/#post-4429335)
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