Comments on: Wordpress $post Variable Quick Reference

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.

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:21:30 +0000

Thanks for this summary – saved me big time

By: dizastix

dizastix — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:51:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for this reference! helped me figure out a problem that was taking me hours.

By: Nicholas Reed

Nicholas Reed — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:52:55 +0000

saved me, thanks dude!!!!!

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:43:24 +0000

Thanks Thomas! I’ll get that added