title: Post content not showing
body: <p>I have this code that works perfect:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null;
  $wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query-&gt;query('posts_per_page=5' . '&amp;paged='.$paged);
  while ($wp_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $wp_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;
  
  &lt;h2&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
  &lt;span&gt;&lt;?php the_date('m/d/y'); ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink(); ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;button&gt;Read More&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  
  &lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt;
  &lt;?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to display an excerpt of the post content between the date and button. So I added <code>&lt;p&gt;&lt;?php the_content(); ?&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</code>. Didn't work. I tried <code>&lt;p&gt;&lt;?php get_the_content(); ?&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</code>. Still nothing.  </p>
  
  <p>I tried putting the <code>&lt;?php if (have_posts()) : ?&gt;</code> <code>&lt;?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?&gt;</code> loop around all of the HTML and just the paragraph. Both yielded nothing.</p>
  
  <p>How do I get the excerpt to display?</p>