Title: Which function formats the output?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Which function formats the output?

 *  [ryy705](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryy705/)
 * (@ryy705)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-function-formats-the-output/)
 * Hello,
    I pulling a post’s content using database query and printing it out. 
   Unfortunately, I am loosing all the formatting that WP puts in when outputting
   content. Such as the additional br tags. Which function does WP use to format
   the output? I would like to put the content through that function before printing
   it. Many thanks in advance for your help.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-function-formats-the-output/#post-1874786)
 * Why are you using a db query instead of something like get_posts?
 *  Thread Starter [ryy705](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryy705/)
 * (@ryy705)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-function-formats-the-output/#post-1874820)
 * Because I am allowing the user to print the content of one post in another. I
   created a shortcode that pulls posts by title like so:
    `[includepage="My Title"]`
   How would you do this?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-function-formats-the-output/#post-1874886)
 * I’d use [get_posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_posts).

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