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1. pcwp
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I'm using a mini loop on a home page.
   ver 2.03

   The post title is fine (in h2 tags),
   but the post content is one block of
   unformatted text - ignoring any format
   tags from the post such as br and p
   tags (the content is fine on the blog).

   I've tried it both as a ul/li and plain.

   the print portion of the code is:
   \ <?
   $news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID,post_title,post_content,post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts
   WHERE post_status= \"publish\" ORDER BY 'ID' DESC LIMIT ".$how_many);
   foreach($news as $np){
   print ("<a href=\"");
   echo get_permalink($np->ID);
   print ("\"><h2>$np->post_title</h2>");
   print ("$np->post_content");
   } ?> \

   thanks for any direction.

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   You're bypassing all the built in formatting functions with that code. A better way would be to write a proper Loop, but that may be too problematic for whatever you're doing.

   So, the quick fix is to change the next to last line to this:
   print (apply_filters('the_content',$np->post_content));

   You should also probably apply 'the_title' filters to the post title.

3. pcwp
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   beautiful Otto,

   while I aspire to write a "proper Loop",
   I opted for your quick fix which gave me
   exactly what I wanted.

   thank ya kindly!

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