Introduce 'post_status' => 'publish_or_private'

[scribu]

This code:

$query = new WP_Query();

print_r( $query->posts );

will contain private posts, if the user has the appropriate capabilities.

This code:

$posts = get_posts();
print_r( $posts );

won't contain private posts.

That's because get_posts() always sets 'post_status' to 'publish', for back-compat.

Therefore, I propose we introduce an explicit 'publish_or_private' value, which would allow this:

$posts = get_posts( array( 'post_status' => 'publish_or_private' ) );

[nacin]

array( 'publish', 'private' )?

[scribu]

Nope, that won't do because it doesn't check the appropriate user cap.

[nacin]

So you're looking for 'post_status' => array( 'publish', 'private' ), 'perm' => 'readable' then.

[scribu]

Fair enough. Added example to the Codex:

​http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Permission_Parameters