Get a WordPress Post’s Content by ID

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On occasion you might want to get the content from a specific post and display it on one of your pages. Here’s how it can be done using some of WordPress’ inbuilt functions and PHP.

Before you get started you’ll need to know the ID of the post you want to use.

The example below will get and display the body content for a post with an ID of 12. You could use this on a page or post template in your theme files:

$my_postid = 12; //define post id
$content_post = get_post($my_postid);
$content = $content_post->post_content; $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content); $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
echo $content;

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