Categories widget violates page level privacy settings?
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I am working on a blog where am I using both private pages and public pages. I am testing a design where the blog-level privacy setting is public, my home page is public, and my blogcontent and about pages are private. . If you are a stranger, and you look at the blog, you don’t even see the private pages in the top level navigation. (A sweet touch!)
But here’s the problem: I want to use the categories widget as a navigation aid. And when I do this my blog pages, which are supposedly private, show up in search results. This really looks like a ‘whoops’ on WordPress’s part. When you use search, it respects the access control that you have set. So, if as a non-member, you search on terms contained in the private pages, you get no results showing up. This, it seems to me, is how it oughter be with categories, too. But it isn’t. Anyone else run into this, and found a work-around?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Quick clarification: what I meant is that my private blog pages are returned in the results list, and are accessible from the list, when I select a category via the categories widget. (In my post I called this a ‘search result’ which might have been a confusing way to describe it.)
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Since posting this query I’ve had to change the design. (In case you’re curious the reason is as follows. When you change a plain page or posts page to private, the top level navigation options for that page in Vigilance disappear, even for people who are logged in as administrators/editors, and therefore have access rights to the private pages.) So I just can’t proceed down the design route of having a mix of private and public pages. Mind you, I am still curious about why category query would return query results to non-members which display private content. But it’s a mellow, theoretical kind of curiousity. …
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