I am using a plugin named Simple Staff List to create Staff Pages for all the staff. I want each of them be able to edit their page. However, the plugin doesn’t have Author Metabox in Editing page.

So I tried to add the ‘author’ in the ‘support’ from this:

‘supports’ => array(‘title’,’thumbnail’,’excerpt’)

To be this:

‘supports’ => array( ‘title’, ‘thumbnail’, ‘author’, ‘excerpt’ )

I come back to the editing page, and it appears. Then I change the author value to another user (user type: Author) However, when I login using that user account, I still cannot edit the post. I guess I should change something more, what else I should do?

I think your kind of post is what most of us need. Simple but the correct wordpress codex way, and mere-mortals readable.
Finally I could sleep. Thanks again for your work posting this 🙂

FYI, this part is not “out of the box” so you have to wrap it into a function and use add_action such as


add_action( 'admin_init', 'news_meta_boxes', 1 );

// Add meta box goes into our admin_init function
function news_meta_boxes() {
add_meta_box('gallery-type-div', __('Gallery Type'), 'gallery_type_metabox', 'news', 'normal', 'high');
}


This also lets you add all your meta boxes in one add_action as referenced in the codex at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box

Oh cool. Thanks for the code snippet, it helps a bunch. There is just so much to learn about the WordPress API!

That is actually a custom metabox that I added with –
add_meta_box( ‘post-content-div’, __(‘Gallery Description’), ‘gallery_description_metabox’, ‘gallery’, ‘normal’, ‘high’);

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