[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6484: have_posts does not seem to work outside of the loop

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#6484: have_posts does not seem to work outside of the loop
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 Reporter:  jsherk   |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  2.5.1    
Component:  General  |     Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:           
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 This is test code, but I use something similar to display recent posts
 from multiple blogs on my home page which is external to the wordpress
 directory.

 This code worked on WP 2.3 but when I upgraded to 2.5 it stopped working.
 If you stick this code in the main wordpress directory, have_posts returns
 nothing, even though there are posts. If you put in a known exisitng post
 id, then you will see that it properly displays the post title, but
 have_posts still says there is nothing!

 <?php
 require('wp-blog-header.php');
 $myid=10; //put a post id here that you know is valid
 $mytest = get_post($myid);
 echo "Known good post id ".$myid." returns: ".$mytest->post_title;
 $mytest = have_posts();
 if ($mytest=="") { $mytest="nothing"; }
 echo " and have_posts() returns: ".$mytest;
 ?>

 Is this a bug, or has something changed that requires changes to how this
 works?

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