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1. MartyThornley
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Saw a little confusing item here about the get_post() function.

   Tried to edit but it said editing was limited members of the group 'users' and had link here.

   But that page said the group doesn't exist.

   Confusing item was this:

   It describes the function as get_post( $post, $output ) where $post should be an ID. But $post is a variable used by WordPress in the loop. and that is not what is being passed to that function.

   Would be better if it read get_post( $id, $output )

   Is the object returned by this function the same object commonly used as $post in the loop? If so, that makes this doubly confusing.

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   get_post can take the ID or the object (e.g $post).

   As for editing Codex, you do need to create an account and login before editing an article.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special:UserLogout

3. MartyThornley
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I had (have) an account and had contributed before. That's not the issue.

   My point with $post vs $id is the wording of the article. To say give this function the id, then use a global variable like $post is confusing.

   Also, if it is true what you say about being able to use either the object $post or the integer $id, why doesn't the description say any of that? In fact it is very specific saying that it must be an integer of a post's ID.

   Anyway, I see someone has edited it tp make more sense. Thanks to whoever that was. :)

   Michael - if you are correct about being able to use $post or $is, maybe you could add that info, since it is nowhere in the current text?

4. MartyThornley
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   btw @MichaelH...

   That info about being able to pass get_post() the global $post object as well as the the id appears to be wrong.

   Look at the function definition itself. It requires the integer of the post's ID.

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