While I was working on a WordPress template today, I needed to find the current page's post_slug. After investigating the function is_single in wp-includes/query.php, I discovered the following method for determining the current page ID, post title, or post name:
$post_obj = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
$post_ID = $post_obj->ID;
$post_title = $post_obj->post_title;
$post_name = $post_obj->post_name;
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So, after all, what is variable the page slug? is it the post_name?
Hi,
is this still the only way to get the page slug/title before The Loop?
I'm on version 3.3.3.
Hi, Michael!
Thanks for the tip. It helped me a lot!
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After looking at the source, that does look like the best way to do it. I can't believe there isn't more support for "pages" vs Blogs.
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How can I make this work outside of the loop?
What about Pages with a mother page?
Is there a way to get the whole string:
/mother/son/
?
Thanks for the help. It's actually simpler, if all you want is the slug. While inside the loop, you use $post->post_name. For example, you can save the slug as a variable by declaring:
$slug = $post->post_name;
I just used this in a site to dynamically label titles with an id for styling purposes. (There are plenty of other ways to do that, I'm sure, but this worked well for my application).
@Dave or whoever else might be reading:
Michael's original code snippet IS how you get the info outside of the loop. The little snippet I posted above works inside the loop only.
love you man, I was wondering how to get the current page id and other data for like 3 hours!