Hi,
If I set the role permissions to disallow the user to ‘Select the user’, when I try to publish I get that message that I’m not allowed to set user and to contact the administrator.
When you do not allow an user to select an owner, you should, in this case set a default owner, for each content type, in Settings > WP Customer Area > Private Files / Pages….. > Default owner.
However, If I allow this, the user sees a list of all the users in the website, which we cannot allow as it would be a privacy violation. He should only be able to see himself in that drop-down list.
The Owner Restrictions add-on allows you to define rules for each selection field. You can define that a subscriber can only select himself for the user field.
However, this is often more user-friendly to entirely hide the owner selection part for the subscriber, and set, for instance, the administrator as the default owner. The user will be author of the post : by default, authored posts are hidden. You could in that case uncheck the option to hide authored posts.
Ideally, the user should be set as the owner by default, skipping the owner step in the publishing tool.
Yes, as detailed above. I think that in your case, you don’t even need the Owner Restriction add-on, but just need to set a default owner to whom the posts should be shared, and unhide the authored posts.
Feel free to choose the solution that better suits your needs.
Best regards.
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