We have an issue with getting updated data for editing from one of our posts in our site and i found this piece of code to get the content of the post

$post->pre_post_content

instead of something like

$post->post_content

the content of pre_post_content seems to be holding data from one of the older revisions of the post instead of the more updated content in post_content. It also has shortcode blocks stripped from it which is still present in post_content.

What is this exactly? I couldn't find any info about this.

thanks

We have an issue with getting updated data for editing from one of our posts in our site and i found this piece of code to get the content of the post

$post->pre_post_content

instead of something like

$post->post_content

the content of pre_post_content seems to be holding data from one of the older revisions of the post instead of the more updated content in post_content. It also has shortcode blocks stripped from it which is still present in post_content.

What is this exactly? I couldn't find any info about this.

thanks

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There's no such thing. pre_post_content is a filter that allows you to filter the result of sanitize_post_field() for the post_content field of posts. But the standard WP_Post class, which $post usually is, does not have a pre_post_content field.

If $post on your site has such a field, then it's likely being added by a plugin, but a web search of $post->pre_post_content turned up nothing, so I'm not sure where you got it from.