get_pages and get_posts returning different data?

Question

this is driving me crazy... I have an admin plugin page that lists pages for a wordpress website. I'm trying to list all the pages using get_pages() but for some reason once pages are published they don't show up anymore - when I use get_posts they show up, but the new draft pages don't :(

Here is the code.. please help

//this only displays the new draft pages - once published pages don't show up here
$args = array('post_status' => 'draft, publish');
$pages = get_pages($args);                                                   
foreach ( $pages as $page ) { some html code that displays the page title }

//this piece of code will return all pages onces they were published, 
//even if 'unpublished' later - but will not return new draft pages
global $post;
$args2 = array( 'numberposts' => 50, 'post_status' => 'publish, draft');
$myposts = get_posts( $args2 );
foreach( $myposts as $post ) {
    setup_postdata($post); 
    ... some HTML code to display the pages
}

what's going on?

Answer 1

You are passing the array for post_status wrong way, Here I updated your code with correction.

To show List of pages

//To display list of pages
$args = array('post_status' => array('drafts', 'publish'));
$pages = get_pages($args);                                                   
foreach ( $pages as $page ) { 
    // some html code that displays the page title 
}

To show List of Posts

// To display list of posts
global $post;
$args2 = array('numberposts' => 50, 'post_status' => array('drafts', 'publish'));
$myposts = get_posts( $args2 );
foreach( $myposts as $post ) {
    setup_postdata($post); 
    //... some HTML code to display the pages
}

Note -

It appears you've got confused with terms posts and pages.

• get_pages() function will return the pages, not the posts
• get_posts() function will return the posts