How to: Get parent page/post title

How to: Get parent page/post title

If you use pages and subpages or posts and parent posts on your WordPress blog, it should be a good idea to display parent page/post title while on a child page. Here’s a code to do that job easily.

To achieve this recipe, simply edit your page.php file and paste the following code where you'd like your parent page title to be displayed:

<?php
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title;
?>

That's all. Also, this code should be some inspiration for creating breadcrumbs. See you tomorrow!

18 Responses

Simon

Jan 28 2009 11:58

Thx

How can i link the title?

Spamboy

Jan 28 2009 15:14

I assume this returns the title of the immediate parent and not the top-level parent (in cases where the current post is the grandchild or beyond)?

K

Jan 28 2009 20:01

Did you read my mind and scan the question I had? Absolutely brilliant.

I am also interested in learning how to link the title to the parent as well as how to get the top-level parent. Better yet, is a breadcrumb type of listing of parent hierarchy possible?

Btw, love your site!

Jean-Baptiste Jung

Jan 29 2009 23:54

@K: Yes, this should be possible, maybe for a future recipe

K

Feb 01 2009 15:59

Thanks Jean. I’ll look forward to it.

Suncatch

Feb 10 2009 14:41

Awesome! Just what I needed! Thx!

micky2be

Feb 16 2009 14:58

because top parent have themself as parent
here the code to get the top parent :
[code]
global $post;
$topParent = $post;
while ($topParent ($topParent->post_parent)) {
$topParent = $topParent->post_parent;
}

echo (get_the_title($tempParent));
[/code]

vicky

Feb 24 2009 23:07

hey micky2be,
whereabouts do you put this code? It breaks sidebar and doesn’t work when I put it in the functions.php either..

Lucian

May 27 2009 23:27

Has anybody figured out, how to display the top level parent? The code provided by micky2be doesn’t work.

Karl Jones

May 27 2009 23:49

global $post;
$topParent = $post;
while ($topParent->post_parent) {
$topParent = $topParent->post_parent;
}
echo (get_the_title($topParent));

paul

Jun 22 2009 19:52

yet again a post that helps me… this is my favourate wordpress site… awsome.

Mike Sinkula

Jul 22 2009 04:48

Thanks much!

Alex

Jul 30 2009 03:26

Here’s what I use to ‘go back’ to the parent page.

if (is_page() && $post->post_parent) {
$post_parent = get_post($post->post_parent);
$parent_link = ‘post_parent).’”>’.$post_parent->post_title.’‘;
echo $parent_link;
}

fldtrace

Aug 18 2009 04:28

I have figure it out: http://www.fldtrace.com/wordpress/how-to-display-parent-page-title-in-wordpress