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CAP removes the Author field in bulk edit actions
Without CAP, it's possible to bulk edit post author:
With CAP active, the field vanishes and no coauthor field is added in replacement:
I think we should wait to fix this issue, here's why. I started working on a fix for that in a separate forked repo: https://github.com/psaikali/Co-Authors-Plus/commit/2ac1afbacaec965bbd35bbdd569b8eeb3c160c03
As you can see, the UI is ready.
I just need to process the bulk action when editing multiple posts, and that's where things get complicated.
The main core function taking care of this bulk editing action is bulk_edit_posts(). Unfortunately, this function does not offer any hook to let us save additional data when bulk editing.
There is a ticket for that here and it looks like the bulk_edit_posts hook will show up in 5.0 (very soon).
IMHO, it's better to wait for this official hook and use it to easily process the bulk-edit action and assign co-authors to multiple posts at the same time. I started to find another way to do that, by hooking to another action (wp_insert_post is triggered by the bulk_edit_posts() function) and checking for $_POST data, but I feel that this is a hacky way of doing things knowing that a proper hook might be available in a couple of months.
Any feedback is appreciated!
Just ran into this myself. Looks like we'll have to wait for 5.0.2 for the bulk_edit_posts to be completed.
@psaikali are you still working on this? Otherwise I can take over and hopefully fix it for good :)
After all, it looks like the bulk_edit_posts action won't be a thing. But it also looks like the wp_insert_post_data hook is enough for our purpose. It does contain all the details we need to then call add_coauthors on each post ID with given authors. This is an example var_dump of the second argument of the action:
array (size=47)
...
'ID' => int 10673
...
'coauthorsinput' =>
array (size=3)
0 => string 'Giacomo Lana' (length=12)
1 => string 'admin' (length=5)
2 => string 'Search for an author' (length=20)
'coauthors' =>
array (size=2)
0 => string 'et-1' (length=4)
1 => string 'admin' (length=5)
'coauthors-nonce' => string '81d49936a3' (length=10)
'bulk_edit' => string 'Aggiorna' (length=8)
...
'post' =>
array (size=2)
0 => string '10673' (length=5)
1 => string '10633' (length=5)
'action2' => string '-1' (length=2)
'post_ID' => int 10673
'user_ID' => int 1
'filter' => string 'db' (length=2)
it looks to me the two entries coauthors and post are enough.
Tell me please, is there any news on this issue?
You can check the PR: https://github.com/Automattic/Co-Authors-Plus/pull/747 A fix was submitted, but it causes issues so, someone has to fix the fix.