Excerpt displays the current page excerpt not one being pulled

Question

Just as the title says this code is not pulling the excerpt from $recent like it should be, instead it is pulling it from the current page.

   <?php
$args = array( 'post_status' => 'pending');
$recent_posts = new WP_Query( $args );

foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
$recent->the_post(); // Add this here to cause the other functions to work without the post ID
    echo '<div id="votes"><li id="voteimage"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . esc_attr( $recent["post_title"] ) . '">';
    echo get_the_post_thumbnail($recent["ID"], 'thumbnail');
    echo '</li></a>';
    echo '<li class="vote-title"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="Look '.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li>';
    echo '<li class="vote-desc"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_excerpt() . '</a> </li>';
    echo '</div><br></br>';
}

?>

get_the_excerpt($recent["ID"]) is the part pulling the excerpts, tried using the_excerpts and swapping it around to ($recent[get_the_excerpt]) too, nothing I try seems to work.

Example: streakingpirates.com

Answer 1

In the docs, the parameter to pass the post ID is marked deprecated.

That means, in order for your custom loop to work, you need to add $recent->the_post()

However, as you pointed out, you can't do that when you use wp_get_posts, so I'd suggest modifying the query to be a custom loop:

$args = array( 'post_status' => 'pending');
$recent_posts = new WP_Query( $args );

Then, you should be able to use your code:

See below:

while ( $recent_posts->have_posts()) {
    $recent_posts->the_post(); // Add this here to cause the other functions to work without the post ID
    echo '<div id="votes"><li id="voteimage"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . esc_attr( $recent["post_title"] ) . '">';
    echo get_the_post_thumbnail($recent["ID"], 'thumbnail');
    echo '</li></a>';
    echo '<li class="vote-title"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="Look '.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li>';
    echo '<li class="vote-desc"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_excerpt() . '</a> </li>';
    echo '</div><br></br>';
}

Also note that get_the_excerpt() will return un-filtered content. You may want to wrap it in an apply_filters() like so:

apply_filters('the_content', get_the_excerpt());