Contributors can't easily view others' posts in a certain term

[nacin]

As a contributor, the default tab is 'Me', not 'All'. But you can go to 'All' and see a list of all posts.

At that time, you can also search for posts, and filter by category, date, etc. Those all work fine. You can also filter by category or tag by clicking a term in those columns, but this doesn't work -- all_posts=1 gets removed, and you end up seeing the 'Me' tab again.

You can manually append all_posts=1, but there's no way to actually filter by term viewing all posts via the UI.

Interestingly, the author query var works. That'd be bad if it didn't. But it doesn't append all_posts=1, so it's done internally.

[PeteMall]

This bug report sounds like you wrote it at 6:30 in the morning... which you did.

[nacin]

For the record, this is from our Skype window:

Andrew Nacin: This bug report sounds like I wrote it at 6:30 in the morning:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15784
Pete Mall: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15784#comment:1

I can't win.

[dllh]

15784.patch seems to resolve this issue by adding all_posts => 1 to the add_query_arg() call if isset( $_REQUESTall_posts? ).

[dllh]

slightly modified approach

[dllh]

Based on discussion in irc, I've added in 15784.2.patch a slightly modified approach that uses post_status=all instead of checking for all_posts=1 in the url. Seems to have the same result, and the patch is a teensy bit simpler.

[SirLouen]

Reproduction Report

Description

❌ This report can't validate that the issue can be reproduced.

Environment

• WordPress: 7.0-alpha-61215-src
• PHP: 8.2.29
• Server: nginx/1.29.3
• Database: mysqli (Server: 8.4.7 / Client: mysqlnd 8.2.29)
• Browser: Chrome 143.0.0.0
• OS: Windows 10/11
• Theme: Twenty Twenty-Five 1.4
• MU Plugins: None activated
• Plugins:
  • Gutenberg 22.3.0
  • Test Reports 1.2.1
  • User Switching 1.11.1

Testing Instructions

1. Create a couple of posts.
2. Set some of those posts to a category, say, example-category
3. Create a contributor user
4. Switch to that contributor user
5. Go to posts and add a query var like /wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=example-category
6. 👌 Posts in that category are shown as expected

Actual Results

1. ❌ This can't be reproduced

Additional Notes

• Given that this ticket is 15 years old is probably that it might has been solved at some point. Time to close it as worksforme