Comments on: How do I fetch the slug, sans domain, in WordPress/PHP?

Question: How do I fetch the slug, sans domain, in WordPress/PHP?

cortex — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:26:42 -0800

Learning my way around WordPress. How do I fetch the slug text, sans domain, in WordPress/PHP?

Neither the docs nor Google seem to have an answer for me.

I don't, for example, want the_permalink(), which returns a fully-qualified URL. I want just the slug text, as bolded below:

http://www.domainypants.com/06/07/31/this-is-the-slug/

I have enough programming acumen to figure out how to strip this out of the larger permalink if necessary, but I'd like to know, definitively, if I need to or if WordPress actually makes this available out of the box.

By: misterbrandt

misterbrandt — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:39:36 -0800

Does this work?
$post->post_name

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:47:23 -0800

!

tests it

Hugs! I swear I tried that already, but I was clearly wrong.

You're not a gweeper, are you?

By: misterbrandt

misterbrandt — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:50:02 -0800

Here is another post that seems to confirm the $post->post_name is what you are looking for:



function get_the_slug() {

	global $post;

	if ( is_single() || is_page() ) {

		return $post->post_name;

	} else {

		return "";

	}

}

on preview, cool. glad it actually works for reals.
and wtf is a gweeper?

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:57:17 -0800

Something that a different Josh Brandt would self-identify as. Mystery resolved!

By: misterbrandt

misterbrandt — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:07:23 -0800

ah. well, josh power, and all that!