WordPress, custom single page content

Question

I am trying to get a custom single page to spit out the title and content of the post, the title works fine, the content of the post doesn't seem to want to come through. I don't work much in wordpress so I am in the dark here, can someone tell me how to fix this? Here is my single-news.php code:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="decade1">
<?php

echo get_the_title().'<br/>'; //Output titles of queried posts
echo get_the_content().'<br/>';

?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks!!

You need the WordPress Loop for those functions to work. – RRikesh Feb 25 '14 at 05:35 — RRikesh, Feb 25 '14 at 05:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '14 at 05:39

You need the WordPress Loop before using tags like get_the_title().

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="decade1">
  <?php
  if ( have_posts() ) {
    while ( have_posts() ) {
      the_post();
      echo get_the_title() . '<br/>'; 
      echo get_the_content() . '<br/>';
    } // end while
  } // end if
  ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '14 at 05:49

get_the_content() must be use in loop.

syntax:

get_the_content( $more_link_text, $stripteaser )

where $more_link_text and $stripteaser are optional. read about it

and get_the_title() will output title only when it is in loop, otherwise you have to provide post id to display title.

get_the_title($post_id)

WordPress, custom single page content

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