Add option for private posts

Roland,

Thank you for the suggestion.

However, isn’t the purpose of private posts to make them inaccessible to public users?

We would need to discuss the impact of this option in detail before committing it.

Adding the ability to show private posts enables the use of the widget on posts or pages that are private themselves. A client of mine ran into this limitation when setting up some linked private posts and this solved it cleanly. Because it’s being used on a post thats private itself the posts shown in the widget are never open for non-logged in users.

The way I implemented the ability is according to the design of the plugin and purely optional for the user.

Ok, I am merging it into the current dev branch. If it looks good I’ll add you as a contributor and it will go into the next tagged release. I have to make sure it doesn’t create a security problem, but it looks fine so far.

BTW the branch is ‘one-metabox’ I need to clean up the conflicts.

Roland, your feature is live in v.2.0.5. I made a few modifications (mainly current_user_can('read_private_posts') tests and some coding style preferences.

Thanks for the help. Keep in touch!