Manually set global $post vars with an ID, in order to use template tags

Question

I have a function retrieving ID's of posts by very specific means.

I need to be able to set the global $post in order to use functions like the_content(), which does not allow an ID as a parameter.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

When your going through your loop add this:

global $post; 
$post = get_post( $ID, OBJECT );
setup_post_data( $post );

//Do something

wp_reset_postdata();

Answer 2

To work with posts outta loop try using:

get_post(post_id)

to get a post with a specific ID out of the loop,when you do this,the global object $post will hold the post which you'v just selected.Now you can get the content using :

$post->post_content .

check the get_post documentation on Wordpress Codex