[Plugin: Co-Authors Plus] Real-Time Search to Add Authors Platform Compatibility?

Ah. it looks like if you have a custom user role the search won’t pull that user even if they have the capability to publish or edit posts.

looks like a limitation of get_users() — can I suggest a modification that I tested and seems to work?

remove the ‘who’ parameter of get_users(), loop through the returned array and check for a particular capability like ‘edit_posts’ using user_can().

not particularly elegant but here’s my edit to search_authors():

if ( function_exists( 'get_users' ) ) {
	$search = sprintf( '*%s*',  $search ); // Enable wildcard searching
	$temp_authors = get_users( array( 'search' => $search, 'fields' => $author_fields ) );
	foreach ( $temp_authors as $author ) {
		if ( user_can( $author->ID, 'edit_posts' ) ) {
			$authors[] = $author;
		}
	}
}

even if it doesn’t make it into the plugin, I hope this helps someone mod the plugin for custom roles.

hey Daniel,

thanks for getting back to me. no worries — sorry for my delay in getting back to you as well. sure, i’ll take a swing — i had done some work already to modify it for the situation i was working through.