Title: editnew.php isn’t same as edit.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# editnew.php isn’t same as edit.php

 *  [RobotHero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robothero/)
 * (@robothero)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editnewphp-isnt-same-as-editphp/)
 * Let’s say I’ve duplicated the edit.php file, and named the new file editnew.php.
 * When I go to edit.php, it lists all of my posts. When I go to editnew.php, it
   only lists the ones in the past.
 * Both files are exactly the same.
 * What is causing the difference in behaviour?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editnewphp-isnt-same-as-editphp/#post-187158)
 * I assume you won’t take “I don’t know” for an answer?
 * Though I can’t point to the components in the source handling this, functionality
   in WordPress’ admin pages revolves around the name of the file, to a degree. 
   In part this is a requirement for accessibility to plugins providing admin features.
 *  Thread Starter [RobotHero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robothero/)
 * (@robothero)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editnewphp-isnt-same-as-editphp/#post-187167)
 * wp-blog-header.php seemed a likely source for the difference, because that’s 
   where $posts gets filled.
 * But the only mention of ‘edit.php’ it contains is about gzipcompression, which
   doesn’t seem relevant.
 * I also tried admin-functions.php, functions-post.php, and a few others, and didn’t
   see anything that looked like it would account for the difference.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editnewphp-isnt-same-as-editphp/#post-187167)
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