Question

I am trying to create a page in my WordPress Admin Area that displays excerpts of posts and various custom field meta in a table-style layout.

If this were a front-end WordPress Template, I could do this very easily using a WordPress Loop and Query, however, I am not so sure how I would go about doing this on a page in the admin area.

Would it be the same, or would I need to use a completely new method? If so, could someone please provide a working example of how I would do this?

The admin page will be created using an included file within my functions.php – or at least that is the plan at the moment, so I just need help in figuring out how to pull the WordPress Excerpts and Post Meta.

Answer 1

outside the loop you would need to use

$post->post_excerpt

or try this

function get_the_excerpt_here($post_id)
{
  global $wpdb;
  $query = "SELECT post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_id LIMIT 1";
  $result = $wpdb->get_results($query, ARRAY_A);
  return $result[0]['post_excerpt'];
}