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Expand Up @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ const authorField: Partial< Field< MediaItem > > = {
'user',
{
per_page: -1,
who: 'authors',

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I wasn't sure about this and that's why I hadn't included it in my main author field PR.

Can't a subscriber upload an attachment and be set as author of it?

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Good questions!

For WordPress attachment post types, I'm pretty sure the author is the user who uploaded the file to the WordPress media library.

By default, no — subscribers cannot upload files in WordPress. The standard capability required to upload files is upload_files, which subscribers don't have.

Now, something that I didn't notice, but should have, is that contributors don't have upload_files caps by default either.

In fact, that makes me wonder if we should be rather be querying by roles cap instead for perfect accuracy, but I'm not sure that's possible.

{ who: 'authors' } is not perfectly aligned with upload_files, it's the closest we have and probably fits most cases.

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It seems we can query by caps. Said that, it seems there are more nuances in the query (at least for the pages one). Not sure if attachments are affected the same way.

_fields: 'id,name',
context: 'view',
}
) ) ?? [];
return authors.map( ( { id, name } ) => ( {
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