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at August 30, 2010 02:21 by Rembrand
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src: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_author-not-displaying-anything-ideas
When not using the loop, you need to manually prepare the data with setup_postdata($post), as such:
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$query = get_posts('showposts=5');
foreach($query as $post) {
setup_postdata($post); //loads all data, including meta for access
//resume adding template tags as normal
}
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For example, when you can't get the post author to shop up using the_author(); it usually means your working outside the loop while that function is meant to work inside the loop. This is a way around it. (got it from the forums)
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Certain post data not showing
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PHP