Yeah I wonder why no one makes a plugin or care/mention anything about it. It is the thing that still makes blogs weaker than forums
I think this ability is disabled in 2.5. I don’t know why they do that. I’m facing the same problem. Now I have to set EVERY post to private. And yes, when it is private it’s no longer counted in the Category Widget. So confused now. Dunno wat to do.
This is definitely a bug. I am exactly in the same situation. I use my blog kind of like a forum, where everyone can post (we are a translation team). Then this bug appears. I went to WordPress Codex and I got this:
Post Author
A list of all blog authors you can select from to attribute as the post author. This section only shows if you have multiple users with authoring rights in your blog.
At first I thought this was unreasonable of the coders to “force” the admin not be able to write anymore in this case. But now I think this may be a mistake.
Really want a way to fix this. Creating another account to “pour” the later posts into it is not a solution!!!
