Author selection for Pages should not include users with roles lower than Editor

[twstokes]

Expected behavior

1. Author selection feature is available
2. List of authors doesn't contain users who have a role lower than Editor

Actual behavior

Self-hosted sites without a WordPress.com connection

• Author selection feature isn't available

WordPress.com sites

• Author selection feature is available
• List contains all users on the site
• When selecting the other user (with a role lower than Editor) and publishing the Page, an error is presented by the user interface

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Prerequisites: Two users exist on a blog - one Administrator role, and one lower than Editor (e.g. Author or Contributor).

• WordPress.com roles
• WordPress.org roles

1. Log into the app as the Administrator user
2. Tap the FAB and select Site page to create a page
3. Choose any layout
   • ℹ️ If the Blank Page layout was chosen, populate a title
4. Open the Page settings view and observe the options

Notes

WordPress.com's web interface (Calypso) allows one of these users to be set and for the Page to be published without error.

Tested on Pixel 4a, Android 13, WPAndroid 21.4

[twstokes]

WPiOS issue: wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS#19886

[zwarm]

I am not seeing this behavior in Android. My author list, for both posts and pages, show Admin, author, contributors, or editors roles. In addition, I double checked the api call and have verified we are requesting people where "authors_only=true". Perhaps this has changed from 2023. @twstokes - can you verify this is still happening? Thanks

[twstokes]

@zwarm If you're not able to reproduce it with those steps then we're probably good! Thanks for the follow up. I think we can close it.

[zwarm]

Closing. The issue seems to have been resolved.