Question

I am trying to get the post id from a widget I am putting into the sidebar, but what ever I try I seem to get random post id’s from other posts.

I have tried:

            $id = get_the_id();

            $post_id = $GLOBALS['post']->ID;

            global $wp_query;

            $thePostID = $wp_query->post->ID;

The template I am using is classipress and I am putting my widget into the sidebar they provide. They already have a form at the top of the sidebar which uses the post id. They use

            global $post;

I have tried this also and it too gives my a different post id, but not the correct one.

I am all out of ideas at this stage.

Answer 1

Make sure your plugin is added with:

add_action("widgets_init", "your_init");

otherwise $post won’t be initialized at the time.