From 9e2aa326570fc0c687da947b88a7020acd37e027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:47:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Handle null user ID in the WP_User constructor. Props
 kawauso. fixes #17894

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@18598 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/capabilities.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/capabilities.php b/wp-includes/capabilities.php
index 013e561f97..319ea9a2e5 100644
--- a/wp-includes/capabilities.php
+++ b/wp-includes/capabilities.php
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ class WP_User {
 	 * @return WP_User
 	 */
 	function __construct( $id = 0, $name = '', $blog_id = '' ) {
-		if ( ! is_numeric( $id ) ) {
+		if ( ! empty( $id ) && ! is_numeric( $id ) ) {
 			$name = $id;
 			$id = 0;
 		}