Question

I’ve created a custom sidebar that grabs the post parent’s pages:

query_posts("post_type=page&post_parent=6"); 

I’d like to grab the title of the post_parent (i.e. “About”). the_title won’t work because it’s the title of the child pages.

How can I output the post_parent title?

Answer 1

It looks like you’ve already got the ID of the parent post, so you can just use this:

<?php
    $parent_post_id = 6;
    $parent_post = get_post($parent_post_id);
    $parent_post_title = $parent_post->post_title;
    echo $parent_post_title;
?>

(Insert your parent post id at $parent_post_id)

Ref: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post