Title: the_content problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# the_content problem

 *  [swooper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swooper/)
 * (@swooper)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problem-2/)
 * Hello,
 * I use the WP Admin panel to letting display the 6 latest blog entries at my “
   home”page. Now I´ve severeal problems displaying the latest 8 entries on a subpage
   using the following code:
    ` <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> <?php while (have_posts()):
   the_post(); ?> <?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=8'); foreach ($posts as 
   $post) : ?> <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title();?
   ></a></h4> <div class="post-main"> <?php <strong>the_content</strong>('Read ï¿
   ½'); ?> </div> <p class="custom"><?php the_time('d. F Y ') ?> filed under <?php
   the_category(', ') ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit','',''); ?> <?php endforeach;?
   > <?php endwhile; ?> <?php else : ?> <h4>Not Found</h4> <?php endif; ?>
 * Everything´s fine if I replace the_content with the_excerpt but that´s not 
   what´s intended. Please feel free to help me out 🙂

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 *  [jaseone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaseone/)
 * (@jaseone)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problem-2/#post-264766)
 * `<?php <strong>the_content</strong>('Read �'); ?>`
 * Should read something like:
 * `<?php echo "<strong>".the_content."</strong>"; ?>`
 * I’m not sure what you intend with the Read bit on the end but regardless what
   you had was invalid PHP, the strong tags are HTML not PHP, alternatively you 
   could use:
 * `<strong><?php echo the_content;?></strong>`
 *  Thread Starter [swooper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swooper/)
 * (@swooper)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problem-2/#post-264769)
 * My intention was to emphasize the “the_content” part that anyone can take a quick
   scan..the php should be right the Read is what is going to be displayed if use
   the more tag while posting a new entry..To sum up strong or the php echo, sadly,
   are not the problem..
 *  Thread Starter [swooper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swooper/)
 * (@swooper)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problem-2/#post-264799)
 * Does nobody know anything about this?
 *  1539
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problem-2/#post-264812)
 * Bad English is obviously hard to understand. Perhaps you can rephrase your question.

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