How can I get the current page name in WordPress

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What PHP code can be used to retrieve the current page name in a WordPress theme   All the solutions I have seen so far  the title    get page  - gt post name  get post    etc   don t work for a page that contains post entries  They will all return the name of the latest blog entry   Stated another way  assume that you have a page created in WordPress with the name  My News   This page is set as the  post page   Add a couple of posts to the page  Now  what API can be used to retrieve the string  my-news  instead of the name of the latest post     I ve found the following variable which seems to work    wp query- gt queried object- gt post name   This is actually the URL friendly version of the page name  slug   which is what I was looking for too  This was tested with the default template  Twenty nbsp Ten   I m really not sure why the two variables given below do not work on my site  Thanks to keatch for the print r   tip   Now  why is this information hidden so deep down

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lt  php wp title        gt    This worked for me   If I understand correctly  you want to get the page name on a page that has post entries

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This seems to be the easiest to use    lt  php single post title      gt

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The WordPress global variable  pagename should be available for you  I have just tried with the same setup you specified   pagename is defined in the file wp-includes theme php  inside the function get page template    which is of course is called before your page theme files are parsed  so it is available at any point inside your templates for pages   Although it doesn t appear to be documented  the  pagename var is only set if you use permalinks  I guess this is because if you don t use them  WordPress doesn t need the page slug  so it doesn t set it up    pagename is not set if you use the page as a static front page     This is the code inside  wp-includes theme php  which uses the solution you pointed out when  pagename can t be set   -- if     pagename  amp  amp   id  gt  0          If a static page is set as the front page   pagename will not be set  Retrieve it from the queried object    post    wp query- gt get queried object       pagename    post- gt post name

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I believe that the Roots starter theme has a fantastic function to get the current page title  It is very hackable  covers all bases  and can be easily used with the wp title hook          Page titles     function roots title       if  is home          if  get option  page for posts   true           echo get the title get option  page for posts   true          else          e  Latest Posts    roots              elseif  is archive           term   get term by  slug   get query var  term    get query var  taxonomy         if   term          echo  term- gt name        elseif  is post type archive            echo get queried object  - gt labels- gt name        elseif  is day            printf     Daily Archives   s    roots    get the date           elseif  is month            printf     Monthly Archives   s    roots    get the date  F Y           elseif  is year            printf     Yearly Archives   s    roots    get the date  Y           elseif  is author             author   get queried object          printf     Author Archives   s    roots     author- gt display name         else         single cat title              elseif  is search          printf     Search Results for  s    roots    get search query         elseif  is 404           e  Not Found    roots        else       the title

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This is what I ended up using  as of 2018    lt section id  top- lt    is front page      home    basename get permalink       gt   gt

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This also works if you are in the functions php  It is not the best approach since you have to use the global array  but it works    First  we need to add a filter  There must exist a better filter to use than the template include  but I don t know all of them  Please point me to the right one   add filter   template include    var template include   1000    function var template include   template        global  wp query       GLOBALS  current page      wp query- gt get queried object  - gt post name      return  template     Avoid using the variable directly  function get current page   echo    false         if   isset   GLOBALS  current page               return false      return  GLOBALS  current page       Now you can use the function get current page   in any other part of the functions php

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Show the title before the loop starts    page title    wp query- gt post- gt post title

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My approach to get the slug name of the page    slug   basename get permalink

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Here s my version    title   ucwords str replace  -        get query var  pagename        get query var  pagename   was just giving me the page slug  So the above replaces all the dashes  and makes the first letter of each word uppercase - so it can actually be used as a title

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One option  if you re looking for the actual queried page  rather than the page ID or slug is to intercept the query   add action  parse request    show query   10  1     Within your function  you have access to the  wp object and you can get either the pagename or the post name with   function show query  wp        if     is admin         heck we don t need the admin pages          echo  wp- gt query vars  pagename             echo  wp- gt query vars  name               If  on the other hand  you really need the post data  the first place to get it  and arguably in this context  the best  is   add action  wp    show page name   10  1    function show page name  wp        if     is admin              global  post          echo  post- gt ID          post- gt post name             Finally  I realize this probably wasn t the OP s question  but if you re looking for the Admin page name  use the global  pagenow

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We just need to use the  post  global variable   global  post  echo  post- gt post title    This will echo the current page post title

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I have come up with a simpler solution   Get the returned value of the page name from wp title    If empty  print homepage name  otherwise echo the wp title   value    lt  php  title   wp title     false     gt    Remember to remove the separation with the first argument and then set display to false to use as an input to the variable  Then just bung the code between your heading  etc  tags    lt  php if    title           echo  Home   else   echo  title  endif    gt    It worked a treat for me and ensuring that the first is declared in the section where you wish to extract the  title  this can be tuned to return different variables

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Try this    pagename   get query var  pagename

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Ok  you must grab the page title before the loop    page title    wp query- gt post- gt post title    Check for the reference  http   codex wordpress org Function Reference WP Query Properties   Do a  print r  wp query    before the loop to see all the values of the  wp query object

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Within the WordPress Loop   if   have posts       while   have posts       the post                                                 echo get the title                                                 endwhile  endif    This will show you the current page title   For reference  get the title

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You can get the current page  post  or custom post type with the global variable  post   echo  post- gt post title   Note  In a function or class you ll need to specify global  post  prior to trying to use  post   If you have loops on your page  make sure you end each loop with wp reset postdata    to set  post back to the default item being displayed  the page    Note  the  post title  variable is also available for any custom loop   query    including menu items and media attachments    everything in WordPress is a  post

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I ve now found this function on WordPress Codec   get queried  which is a wrapper for  wp query- gt get queried object    This post put me in the right direction  but it seems that it needs this update

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If you re looking to access the current page from within your functions php file  so  before the loop  before  post is populated  before  wp query is initialized  etc     you really have no choice but to access the server variables themselves and extract the requested page from the query string    page slug   trim    SERVER  REQUEST URI             Note that this is a  dumb  solution  It doesn t know  for instance that the page with the slug  coming-soon  is also p 6  And it assumes that your permalink settings are set to pagename  which they should be anyway     Still  can be a useful little trick if you have a controlled scenario  I m using this in a situation where I wish to redirect non-logged in visitors to a  coming soon  page  but I have to make sure that I m not throwing them into the dreaded  redirect loop   so I need to exclude the  coming soon  page from this rule   global  pagenow  if             is admin    amp  amp           wp-login php      pagenow  amp  amp           coming-soon     trim    SERVER  REQUEST URI            amp  amp            is user logged in         wp safe redirect   coming-soon

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Use    title   get the title  post    parent title   get the title  post- gt post parent    echo  title  echo  parent title

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