About Authors Autocomplete Meta Box

Description

Replaces the default WordPress Author meta box (that has an author dropdown) with a meta box that allows you to select the post’s, or page’s, author via Autocomplete. Can really come in handy if you have a lot of authors and are tired of scrolling through that long author dropdown. Credits Big shoutout to ereleases.com for commissioning this plugin and....

Replaces the default WordPress Author meta box (that has an author dropdown) with a meta box that allows you to select the post’s, or page’s, author via Autocomplete.

Can really come in handy if you have a lot of authors and are tired of scrolling through that long author dropdown.

Credits

Big shoutout to ereleases.com for commissioning this plugin and letting me share it with the community. Thanks, guys. You rock!

Lots of thanks to Andrew Kurtis from WebHostingHub Support for providing the Spanish translation.

Filters

Filters can really come in handy to nail down specific customizations on a site by site basis. I am what you would consider a power user so I’m a big fan of actions and filters and try to incorporate them into my plugins as much as possible. Here are some pretty helpful filters to get your authors autocomplete meta box working just the way you like.

authors_autocomplete_mb_allow_user_id

This filter allows you to block users from the autocomplete results according to user id. Return true to allow and false to deny.

It passes the user id, along with the post ID and post type. Don’t forget: when using a filter, you MUST return something. Here’s an example to help you get started:

authors_autocomplete_mb_allow_user_role

This filter allows you to block users from the autocomplete results according to user role. Return true to allow and false to deny.

It passes the user role, along with the post ID and post type. Don’t forget: when using a filter, you MUST return something. Here’s an example to help you get started:

authors_autocomplete_mb_author_capability

When checking to see if a user has author privileges, and should therefore be included in the autocomplete results, the plugin checks the user’s capabilities. If the user is editing a page, then the user is added if they have the capability to edit_pages, otherwise the user is added if they have the capability to edit_posts.

If you would like to change the author privilege capability, then this filter is for you. It passes the default capability, along with the post ID and post type. Don’t forget: when using a filter, you MUST return something. Here’s an example to help you get started:

authors_autocomplete_mb_custom_user_search_user_ids

Want the autocomplete box to search information besides the default user_login, display_name and user_email? This is the filter for you.

Use this filter to run whatever search you like and simply return the user IDs from your results.

It passes a blank array to get you started, the search term, post ID and post type. Don’t forget: when using a filter, you MUST return something.

Here’s an example from me helping a user search their CIMY User Extra Fields:

get_col( "SELECT users.ID, cimy_uef_data.VALUE FROM $wpdb->users users LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->prefix}cimy_uef_data cimy_uef_data ON cimy_uef_data.USER_ID = users.ID WHERE ( cimy_uef_data.VALUE LIKE '%$search_term%' OR users.user_login LIKE '%$search_term%' OR users.display_name LIKE '%$search_term%' OR users.user_email LIKE '%$search_term%' ) ORDER BY users.ID ASC" );
}
?>

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Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is-1.35 KB
This is less than99%plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is increased by 0.08 s
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- 0.08s

/(front page)

- 0.05s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 0.04s

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.04s

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 0.06s

/wp-admin/index.php

- 0.17s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 0.02s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

- 0.47s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

- 0.07s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

- 0.17s

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 0.06s

/wp-admin/upload.php

- 0.19s

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- 1.35KB

/ (front page)

- 7.85KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 0.73KB

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.87KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 0.88KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 0.88KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 0.75KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 0.79KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

- 10.94KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 10.08KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 1.23KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 0.73KB

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About Authors Autocomplete Meta Box

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authors_autocomplete_mb_allow_user_id

authors_autocomplete_mb_allow_user_role

authors_autocomplete_mb_author_capability

authors_autocomplete_mb_custom_user_search_user_ids

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