There has been a long-standing problem with Drupal sites that the publish/unpublish option is tied to the "Administer nodes" permission. In most cases users who should be allowed to publish/unpublish nodes are not also intended to administer all content on the site, but with core alone that is the only option.
Drupal contrib module that solves this problem" - Override node options
GitHub Issue #:
815
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Worth mentioning as it was in zulip chat by @yorkshirepudding I just tested and the two work together without issue as long as you don't use the "Exclude comments from Content...
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There is also Node Comments Search - this searches the node and all comments (default search is node and first page of comments) as part of the content search. Izzy's module above is a separate...
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I have created a new module comment_search
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