[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27246: Add function to get the excerpt outside the loop

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#27246: Add function to get the excerpt outside the loop
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 Reporter:  Atoon              |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement        |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Posts, Post Types  |     Version:  3.8.1
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch        |     Focuses:  template
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Comment (by husobj):

 I was trying to get to the bottom of what the old $fakeit was.

 It looks like it used to expect a boolean true/false value as to wether to
 'fake' the excerpt content but can't confirm that this was ever
 implemented - see #4439. The parameter is there but not implemented as far
 back as WP 1.5 (I haven't tried to research back further)

 If it could be confirmed that it used to expect a boolean, could we then
 check for a numeric value for that first parameter and then only handle
 that as a Post ID if that's the case?

 It would be nice to bring it inline with other functions like
 get_the_title()

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