Provide support for the default WP post lookup admin feature
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
Research direction
Start by tracing the WordPress REST search endpoint /wp-json/wp/v2/search?search=&per_page=20&type=post&locale=user and how the Protected Content feature handles search. Done means the activated feature takes over this post lookup, with the optional Search integration and published-content limitation resolved according to the project discussion.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe.
This feature would speed up the ajax-based post lookup that happens when you click on the Link button in Gutenberg and search for a post on the site.

Describe the solution you'd like
Take over the search behavior at /wp-json/wp/v2/search?search=&per_page=20&type=post&_locale=user if the plugin has the Protected Content feature activated. Optional: consider activating this if Search is active, limited obviously to published content. Might not be totally intuitive, but then again if this is for linking it would usually make sense to only show live articles (i.e. those that have a URL).
Designs
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Describe alternatives you've considered
Open to discussion :)
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- PHP
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