QUESTION/BUG referencing a page changed to blog, but not published allows access to published posts

[muskie9]

Steps to Reproduce

• Install dynamic/silverstripe-elemental-blog
• Change a page to Blog type (save, don't publish)
• Add a BlogPost record in the blog (publish)
• Add a Blog element to another page (publish page)
  • View page on FE

Expected Behavior

It would be expected that the blog posts should not display as the page that is now a Blog is in a saved state, but not published.

Actual Behavior

Blog posts display within the blog element on the FE.

[muskie9]

This may be expected behavior as the logic is written:

• Posts by category
• Posts by blog
• Posts that are published

In the event that a blog is selected, but isn't in a published state, it will always fall back to pulling all published posts ordered by published date (respecting the set limit).

@dynamic/dynamic-opensource while we can't necessarily change the expected behavior in the next release, it's worth reviewing to make sure if this is the expected behavior.

If I select a blog from the dropdown, I would presume it would be strict to that blog, even if it is unpublished, resulting in an empty list and the expected message on the frontend. Alternatively, clearly describing what the behavior is for content managers to reduce any confusion.

I'm curious as to what others would expect the behavior to be in the above case.