id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
15667,"wp_list_pages, if it finds no pages to display, shows random child pages instead because of a bug in get_pages()",bobsoap,,"How to reproduce:[[BR]]
- About page is published
- additionally, there is a number of parent pages[[BR]]
- these each have a number of children[[BR]]
- when calling wp_list_pages(), the ""exclude"" attr excludes all parent pages, and display only the About page.

This works as long as there is at least 1 other page published that is not in the list of excluded IDs. In this example, as soon as the About page is set to ""draft"", wp_list_pages stops working correctly.

So... with no other pages besides the excluded ones published, we do this:

1) wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=3,5,7');
=> wp_list_pages SHOULD return nothing, but instead it displays all child pages of the first parent page ID in the ""exclude"" attr (here: 3).

Now we now add the ""exclude_tree"" attr just for fun:

2) wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=3,5,7&exclude_tree=3,5,7');
=> should again return nothing, but instead, it displays the first-ever published child page globally (here: a child page of 5).

It looked like random behavior at first but I've been able to identify the above pattern. I'm guessing it's a failing condition somewhere in the function.",defect (bug),new,normal,Future Release,General,3.0.2,critical,,wp_list_pages needs-patch,