Documentation for Post Object

• philby

• September 22, 2015 at 11:27 pm

It may be that the documentation for Post Object needs a small but helpful improvement in the code example for “Display data for a single post object”:

if( $post_object ): 

	// override $post
	global $post;// this is missing I think
	$post = $post_object;
	setup_postdata( $post );

At least in my hopeless fumblings, this would have saved me a quite a bit of time finding the difference to the codex.

• John Huebner

• September 23, 2015 at 10:55 am

I think the documentation assumes that the code is in a standard WP template file (or even in a file loaded with get_template_part()) where the $post variable is already set up for you.