[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #45883: Recent Posts widget ignores private posts since replacing The Loop

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#45883: Recent Posts widget ignores private posts since replacing The Loop
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 Reporter:  captain.crash          |       Owner:  audrasjb
     Type:  defect (bug)           |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  5.1.1
Component:  Widgets                |     Version:  5.0.2
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by dlh):

 One backwards-compatibility break is changing the `$args` that are passed
 to `widget_posts_args`, which, I guess, isn't huge.

 However, the current behavior has been in place for 12 years — see #4786.
 Although core no longer contains the caching behavior described in that
 ticket, plugin and theme developers may have implemented their own
 fragment caching for widgets or sidebars, and with this change, the widget
 output would no longer be safe to cache.

 Additionally, as you noted, there doesn't appear to be a regression from
 5.1. Plus, 12 years' worth of behavior just seems like a lot to alter in a
 maintenance release.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45883#comment:13>
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