Question

Let’s say the page i’m displaying has the title “About” and the id is 49. Is there a way to change it so it pulls the pages title instead of the id.

At the moment the code I am using is as follows:

<?php
    query_posts('page_id=49');
    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php the_content();
    endwhile;
?>

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

I used something similar on a project, using the post’s slug; save this in your theme’s functions.php:

if ( ! function_exists( 'get_content_by_slug' ) ) :
/**
 * Get content using a slug
 *
 * @param   string
 * @return  string
 */    
function get_content_by_slug($page_slug) {
    $page = get_page_by_path($page_slug);
    if ($page) {
        $page_content = $page->post_content;
        $page_content = apply_filters('the_content', $page_content);            
        return $page_content;
    } else {
        return null;
    }
}
endif;

Usage:

<?php echo get_content_by_slug('page-slug'); ?>