content and excerpt not displaying

Question

I am using get_the_title(453) and while the title displays, i am unable to display the content and the excerpt for the page with the id of 453. The following is my code

        get_the_title(453); 
    $content = get_the_content();
    echo $content;
    the_excerpt();

Is there is something i am missing or doing something wrong?

Answer 1

I figured it out myself and it worked. Here is the code if anyone need any help.

$the_query = new WP_Query('page_id=1') ;
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
        $the_query->the_post();
        the_title();
        the_content();
        the_excerpt();
    }
} else {
    // no posts found
}
wp_reset_postdata();

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Edit:

This is working because the_content() and the_excerpt() have to be used within The Loop.

Answer 2

if you are trying to output only specific page title and content with looping, it is ok, you just only need id of post or page // Here is two thing you just need to understand 1. the_title() ( no need "echo", this function is more specific for title of current view post or page); 2. get_the_title( need "echo", this function can show every post or page title in every page);

use 
echo get_the_title(120); // 120 is your post or page id, it can show every page
echo get_the_title($post->ID); // for only current page view
echo get_the_title(get_the_ID()); // for only current page view, also in loop
echo get_the_title(get_the_ID(12)) //120 is your post or page id, it can show every page
echo get_the_title(get_the_ID($post->ID));


content
the_content() is only for current page, also in loop, no need echo 

echo get_the_content(120); // 120 is your post or page id, it can show every page
echo get_the_content($post->ID); // for only current page view
echo get_the_content(get_the_ID()); // for only current page view, also in loop
echo get_the_content(get_the_ID(12)) //120 is your post or page id, it can show every page
echo get_the_content(get_the_ID($post->ID));

Answer 3

get_the_title will only retrieve the title of the post you designate. That post data will not carry on to other template tags.

Edit: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post should help.

<?php           
 $post_id = 73;
 $queried_post = get_post(69060);
?>
<h1><?php echo $queried_post->post_title; ?>
<p><?php echo $queried_post->post_content; ?></p>