Title: Post Access Issue
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Post Access Issue

 *  Resolved [damaco04](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damaco04/)
 * (@damaco04)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-access-issue/)
 * Hi there, thanks for this plugin, it is awesome.
 * not sure if I am doing something wrong but it has taken me several hours now,
   I have a wordpress site with 500 posts or so, I am creating several editor users,
   and each of them can only edit some specific posts.
 * in the control panel when i remove access to all posts to a user and then grant
   access to the posts he is supposed to edit everything works fine.
 * but when I login with that user, and then access “all posts” page, nothing comes
   up, that is because there are 500 posts loaded (but hidden) and the posts that
   i granted access are in page 3 or 4 or 10.
 * is there anyway that the posts that i granted access to the specific users are
   in page 1? or maybe that the page that i did not grant access dont load at all?
 * here are some screenshots, you will notice ath the top, all post were loaded,
   and the posts that this specific users has access to, are in page 2, so when 
   he logs in he will think he has nothing to edit, because nothing is shown when
   page first loads
 * [https://www.dropbox.com/s/poboohvj9oishj6/page%201.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/poboohvj9oishj6/page%201.png?dl=0)
   
   [https://www.dropbox.com/s/cdarg3nw9tzu23g/page%202.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/cdarg3nw9tzu23g/page%202.png?dl=0)
 * hope you have a great day.
 * regards,
    Danilo
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-access-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-access-manager/)

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 *  [vasyl_m](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vasyl_m/)
 * (@vasyl_m)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-access-issue/#post-6823103)
 * Hi Danilo,
 * That is a great feedback and catch! We are going to work on solution and provide
   the fix asap.
 * Regards,
    Vasyl
 *  [vasyl_m](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vasyl_m/)
 * (@vasyl_m)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-access-issue/#post-6823171)
 * Hi **Danilo**,
 * There is quite a problem with in covering your case with AAM. So let me explain
   it and hopefully you’ll be able to understand better how all this works.
 * Originally WordPress does not support access control for posts or pages. It was
   never designed/implemented this way and assumes that all the posts are available
   for listing.
 * When WordPress requests list of posts from the database, it performs a huge procedure
   with hundreds of different conditions and filters. Then it executes the query
   and fetch the result. AAM filters actually only the result. That is why you see
   so weird behavior when it comes to more than 20 posts (one page).
 * The possible solution for that is to inject some additional functionality into
   query building process BUT there is a HUGE problem. AAM does not know ahead what
   posts are restricted from listing (in your case your have over 500 restricted
   by default and only few allowed). That is why AAM has to go through each posts
   in your website and check if it is restricted or not. It means, that AAM has 
   to perform additional 500+ queries to database for that. With AAM Plus Package(
   when post can inherit settings from parent category or from the default settings),
   the number of queries might even double or triple.
 * Unfortunately we can not implement this functionality because it might overload
   a lot of website that do not use this functionality.
 * You might consider simply restrict access to read and edit posts but leave listing
   unchecked.
 * Thank you for your interest in AAM.
    Vasyl
 *  [vasyl_m](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vasyl_m/)
 * (@vasyl_m)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-access-issue/#post-6823205)
 * Hi **damaco04**,
 * You actually inspired us to create an extension **AAM Post List** that can help
   you to solve your problem. You can try before it goes in official release tomorrow.
 * Get our development version from [GitHub](https://github.com/VasylTech/advanced-access-manager)
   and install **AAM Post Filter** extension (it is free).
 * Please let us know if it works for you.
 * Regards,
    Vasyl

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