Private posts showing in output

It looks like as of v2.3.1 this plugin uses the get_posts_by_author_sql() method to build a portion of the where clause for the SQL query that retrieves the posts. However, it uses mostly the default values for this method. This means that the statement OR post_status = 'private' is included in the SQL. It would be ideal if it was possible to either by filter or parameter modify this behavior. The fourth argument for this method is $public_only which will limit the posts queried to only public posts.

We have implemented a temporary fix to the problem we are currently having by way of the related_posts_by_taxonomy_posts_where filter and replacing the OR post_status = 'private' portion of the where statement with empty string. I feel like this is a hacky solution and an official parameter or filter would be better and less prone to break unexpectedly.

Our fix:

add_filter('related_posts_by_taxonomy_posts_where', function ($where) {
    return str_replace("OR post_status = 'private'", '', $where);
});

Is there a better solution that I have missed? Otherwise it would be really nice to have this added feature.

• This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by AJ Michels.