Title: interfering with podcast plugin
Last modified: April 24, 2020

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# interfering with podcast plugin

 *  [cemcnulty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cemcnulty/)
 * (@cemcnulty)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/interfering-with-podcast-plugin/)
 * I can reliably reproduce a bug wherein the use of the display-posts shortcode
   within a post will change the global post – and not reset it. Here’s my PR to
   fix it in the down-stream podcast plugin, but the problem really exists either
   in display-posts or in WP.
 * [https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/Seriously-Simple-Podcasting/pull/465](https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/Seriously-Simple-Podcasting/pull/465)
 * The symptom is that as soon as `get_the_excerpt()` is called within the podcast
   plugin, the post global is changed as evidenced by a call to `get_the_ID()` before
   and after get_the_excerpt. If I remove the shortcode from the body of the post–
   the post ID does not change.
 * I looked into the display-posts code and it certainly seems to be cleaning up
   after itself properly, which is why I ended up submitting the PR to SSP!

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