How to output only the post content

Question

How can I output ONLY the post content (ie the text entered into the wysiwyg) and nothing else? i just need this for the posts in a specific category, so if i could call like say,

<?php get_template_part( 'venue_content', 'single' ); ?>

it would be ideal.

Answer 1

Assuming you are in the loop, or otherwise know (or know how to get) the $post object:

function wpse63358_get_post_content() {
    global $post;
    return $post->post_content;
}

If you want the formatted post content, replace this:

return $post->post_content;

...with this:

return apply_filters( 'the_content', $post->post_content );

To echo the function output:

echo wpse63358_get_post_content();

Edit

Note: if you just want to output post content in the template, you don't actually even have to bother with wrapping it in a function. Simply use:

global $post;
echo apply_filters( 'the_content', $post->post_content );

Answer 2

I think you can also use 'Post formats' for this, either the aside or the quote format I believe displays just the main content - http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats

Answer 3

If you want to output only the post content, excluding any shortcodes, try something like this.

global $post;
$postContentStr = apply_filters('the_content', strip_shortcodes($post->post_content));
echo $postContentStr;