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Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:32:19 +0000

[...] This function requires pagetitle as a parameter and retrieves the page as a default post object. We are collecting the it inside a variable called $page. Now we can access all the post object [...]

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:39:39 +0000

That’s true, the $post object doesn’t contain a permalink property, so you have to do just what you’ve done here.

By: asdf

asdf — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:58:21 +0000

after some research – doesn’t exist but you can do:

$link = get_permalink($post->ID);

By: asdf

asdf — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:50:03 +0000

useful list except i see no property for a post’s permalink. this would be a pretty essential one especially in custom loops for short code functions since they must return a string so have html show up in the right location of a post.

it must exist since inside a loop using WP_Query you can execute the_permalink()

Help?

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:19:04 +0000

That’s just what the attached excel spreadsheet shows how to do. Use $post->post_title to get the title.

By: Jene

Jene — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:13:42 +0000

for sure a good resource. However, could anyone please be so kind to list down available variables in “Post” array or “key”? I have been struggling finding a way to extract post title and then manipulate it…

thanks in advance for helping.

By: Neocamel

Neocamel — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:20:09 +0000

My man… HUGE!!! Thanks so much for the help! Took me a while to figure out how to echo the title post inside a php query, thanks agin!

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:22:33 +0000

Lost a bunch of files the other day…it’s back now.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:25:28 +0000

Great post – but the Excel file seems to have gone missing!

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:59:13 +0000

There’s a link to download a spreadsheet at the end of the post.

By: mash

mash — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:48:44 +0000

looking for a list of keys for this array.

anyone?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:42:13 +0000

This is a great resource, I’m eternally forgetting what the variable that I’m after is called. A couple of points:

post_guid does indeed hold the url to the post, but it is the REAL url (not the permalink version), so if you’re linking to it from within the site, use get_permalink(), not guid.

menu_order holds the values for display order of pages (only works with pages, not posts).

post_content_filtered exists to store a cached version of post content (most likely with all the the_content filters already applied). If you’ve got a plugin that runs a very resource heavy filter on content, you might consider caching the results with post_content_filtered, and calling that from the front end instead.

By: max

max — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:33:09 +0000

I love you for this post.

By: d

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:16:50 +0000

post_type can also be “attachment”, post_status will be “inherit” then..

this is how wordpress holds images

By: Phil Freo

Phil Freo — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:12:38 +0000

post_parent should give you the ID of a subpage’s parent page.