Title: get_excerpt() returns empty string
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# get_excerpt() returns empty string

 *  [ecsancho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecsancho/)
 * (@ecsancho)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_excerpt-returns-empty-string/)
 * Greetings
 * I’m grabbing a post outside the loop by using $p=get_post(id). However wen trying
   to grab excerpt directly from post by using $p->post_excerpt or get_excerpt(id)
   and both returning empty. What gives? Em I missing something? Thanks in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [ecsancho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecsancho/)
 * (@ecsancho)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_excerpt-returns-empty-string/#post-4348879)
 * Solved it by using setup_postdata( $p ); echo get_the_excerpt();

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_excerpt-returns-empty-string/#post-4348879)
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