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1. cillosis
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I am working on a plugin and have run into a wall that I can't find the solution for.

   I am trying to gather the posts from the database using $wpdb and the closest I have found is this article in the codex:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Displaying_Posts_Using_a_Custom_Select_Query

   The problem lies in the way it uses setup_postdata($post); to populate template tags and then you are supposed to use the tags such as the_title or the_content in order to use the data. When you use one of those template tags, it automatically echos the data to the screen whereas I want to just hold it in a variable for processing.

   How can I get the post data without using template tags?

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 10 months ago #

   there are comparable functions - such as get_the_content() or get_the_title() etc; which would return the data.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_content
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_title

   also, there is $post->post_title or $post->post_date etc;
   and apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content) etc...

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description#Table:_wp_posts
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb#Tables

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