No 'p' tags on WYSIWYG output when querying from different post

• yago

• April 29, 2015 at 9:31 pm

Hi there!

I have created a custom field with a WYSIWYG editor for a particular page that I also want to see in a different page. When I get_field() it in the post it was created the output is perfect, but when I try to pull it in from a different post the output has not a single <p>, which completely messes up my styles.

Here’s what it looks like from the post it was generated:

$field_dump = get_field('featured_show_content');
var_dump($field_dump);

produces the following output

string '<h1>heading 1</h1>
<h2>heading 2</h2>
<h3>heading 3</h3>
<h4>heading 4</h4>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<p>This is the first paragraph of this wysiwyg test.</p>
<p>This is the second paragraph of the wysiwyg test.</p>

And when in a different post:

$custom = get_post_custom(33);
var_dump($custom);

produces the following output

'featured_show_content' => 
    array (size=1)
      0 => string '<h1>heading 1</h1>
<h2>heading 2</h2>
<h3>heading 3</h3>
<h4>heading 4</h4>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
This is the first paragraph of this wysiwyg test.

This is the second paragraph of the wysiwyg test.

As you can see, there aren’t <p>s on the second case. Why does this happen? Is there a way around it? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

• yago

• April 30, 2015 at 3:04 am

I actually managed to solve it at the end.
For some reason the way I was coding the call was only echoing content of the paragraphs. When I just simply did what is written in the documentation: get_field('key-of-the-field', ID-of-the-post);
it pulled all the <p> tags…

Box ticked! (and hopefully someone else will find this useful)