get_posts returns posts by current user only

Question

I have a wordpress blog that has many users roles. When logged in as admin get_posts seems to return all the posts but when logged in as retailer ( role I created ) I only get the posts that the logged in user created

$argArray = array('post_type' => $type, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'orderby' => 'title','numberposts' => -1 );
 $posts = get_posts($argArray);

This code when logged in as admin returns all the posts in the site but when logged in as retailer return only the posts that the user authored.

BTW $type is a post_type

There is no mention of this in the documents or anywhere. is it something I am doing wrong or is it the way this is supposed to be?

Thanks in advance!!

UPDATED

AS I am looking over this it seems that worpdress query does add author argument in the wordpress query.I did new WP_Query() and checked.

This is the part that I want to remove wp_posts.post_author = 347 This is not present in the query made by admin. I have seen remove_query_arg in wordpree query but not sure when and how to use it and if it can be used to remove this argument in the query at all.

Help!!

Answer 1

Try to make sure, you assigned appropriate roles and capabilites for your role retailer .

get_posts uses WP_Query , where those restrictions are verified.

Eventually, take look at get_pages , as I checked it, in the query there in no such a verification, if I am not mistaken.