From 7fe3731637229c43e395d607a88ca7d9060fe5af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 01:52:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Introduce include_selected arg for wp_dropdown_users().   Add
 current author to dropdown in post_author_meta_box().  fixes #16045

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@17198 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php |  3 ++-
 wp-includes/user.php             | 13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php b/wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php
index 468d6d6ea9..4d1d0db276 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php
@@ -530,7 +530,8 @@ function post_author_meta_box($post) {
 	wp_dropdown_users( array(
 		'who' => 'authors',
 		'name' => 'post_author_override',
-		'selected' => empty($post->ID) ? $user_ID : $post->post_author
+		'selected' => empty($post->ID) ? $user_ID : $post->post_author,
+		'include_selected' => true
 	) );
 }
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/user.php b/wp-includes/user.php
index b5677d0eb5..c30f7be830 100644
--- a/wp-includes/user.php
+++ b/wp-includes/user.php
@@ -957,6 +957,7 @@ function setup_userdata($for_user_id = '') {
  * <li>show - Default is 'display_name'. User table column to display. If the selected item is empty then the user_login will be displayed in parentheses</li>
  * <li>echo - Default is '1'. Whether to display or retrieve content.</li>
  * <li>selected - Which User ID is selected.</li>
+ * <li>include_selected - Always include the selected user ID in the dropdown. Default is false.</li>
  * <li>name - Default is 'user'. Name attribute of select element.</li>
  * <li>id - Default is the value of the 'name' parameter. ID attribute of select element.</li>
  * <li>class - Class attribute of select element.</li>
@@ -977,7 +978,7 @@ function wp_dropdown_users( $args = '' ) {
 		'include' => '', 'exclude' => '', 'multi' => 0,
 		'show' => 'display_name', 'echo' => 1,
 		'selected' => 0, 'name' => 'user', 'class' => '', 'id' => '',
-		'blog_id' => $GLOBALS['blog_id'], 'who' => ''
+		'blog_id' => $GLOBALS['blog_id'], 'who' => '', 'include_selected' => false
 	);
 
 	$defaults['selected'] = is_author() ? get_query_var( 'author' ) : 0;
@@ -1007,9 +1008,19 @@ function wp_dropdown_users( $args = '' ) {
 			$output .= "\t<option value='-1'$_selected>$show_option_none</option>\n";
 		}
 
+		$found_selected = false;
 		foreach ( (array) $users as $user ) {
 			$user->ID = (int) $user->ID;
 			$_selected = selected( $user->ID, $selected, false );
+			if ( $_selected )
+				$found_selected = true;
+			$display = !empty($user->$show) ? $user->$show : '('. $user->user_login . ')';
+			$output .= "\t<option value='$user->ID'$_selected>" . esc_html($display) . "</option>\n";
+		}
+
+		if ( $include_selected && ! $found_selected && ( $selected > 0 ) ) {
+			$user = get_userdata( $selected );
+			$_selected = selected( $user->ID, $selected, false );
 			$display = !empty($user->$show) ? $user->$show : '('. $user->user_login . ')';
 			$output .= "\t<option value='$user->ID'$_selected>" . esc_html($display) . "</option>\n";
 		}