[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #32187: List table: Pages displayed in "Excerpt View"

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#32187: List table: Pages displayed in "Excerpt View"
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 Reporter:  afercia         |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |    Version:  4.2
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui              |
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 Pages (and all hierarchical posts) listing may end up being displayed in
 "Excerpt view". Looks a bit weird to me since, as far as I get, the
 "Excerpt View" was conceived for Posts and also can see some code that
 tries to don't display Excerpts for hierarchical posts, namely in
 `WP_Posts_List_Table->single_row()`:
 {{{
 if ( ! $this->hierarchical_display && 'excerpt' == $mode &&
 current_user_can( 'read_post', $post->ID ) )
                 the_excerpt();
 }}}

 To reproduce:
 - go in the '''Posts''' listing
 - click on the "Excerpt view" icon
 - go on the Pages listing
 - click on any of the table headers links (Title, Comments, Date) to have
 an order different from the default `'menu_order title'`
 - now you can see the "excerpts" and also the time below the date

 Screenshot:

 [[Image(https://cldup.com/8IGG-1Rrhh.png)]]

 Worth noting there's no UI control to switch view in the Pages screen.
 Looks like `$this->hierarchical_display` is set to true only for the
 default order: as soon as you change order, you get the Excerpt View.
 See `WP_Posts_List_Table->prepare_items()`
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.2/src/wp-admin/includes
 /class-wp-posts-list-table.php#L109

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32187>
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