Post Status when using AJAX

Hey there,

I’m trying to create a live search, but Relevanssi seems to ignore my post_status parameter which I set to publish. I need to do this because AJAX requests are performed within the admin scope, and because of that “Drafts” are also returned. I don’t want this of course.

On a regular search with the same search string, Relevanssi does not return the draft. Also, when I perform the AJAX request using regular $wp_query->get_posts(), I also don’t get the drafts.

My code is as follows:

add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_obeymag_search', 'obeymag_search'); // for not logged in users
	add_action('wp_ajax_obeymag_search', 'obeymag_search');

	function obeymag_search()
	{
		global $wp_query;
		global $post;

		$search = $_POST['search_val'];

		$args = array(
			'post_status'=>'publish',
			'post_type' => 'post',
			'suppress_filters' => true,
			's'=>$search,
			'no_found_rows'=>true,
		);
		$wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
		$wp_query->parse_query( http_build_query( $_GET ) );
		$wp_query->set( 'cache_results', false );

		if ( function_exists( 'relevanssi_do_query' ) ) {
			relevanssi_query( $wp_query );
		}else{
			$wp_query->get_posts();
		}

		die((string)print_r($wp_query));

		if ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : 

			while ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : $wp_query->the_post();
				Starkers_Utilities::get_template_parts( array( 'parts/shared/article-link' ) );
			endwhile;

			wp_reset_postdata();

		else:
			echo '';
		endif;
		die();
	}

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