In WordPress 4.5, changes were made to some post template functions (specifically, get_the_excerpt() and related functions) to improve their usability outside of the post loop; see #27246. Since that release, some users have noticed that these changes had certain side effects, specifically when the template functions incorrect used the post-related global variables ($authordata, $page, etc) … Continue reading Changes to post globals setup and usage in get_the_content() and related functions in WordPress 5.2