return page name in url

Question

This the url format: www.mysite.com/pageone

How do I get the page name? what is the wordpress function/method for this?

bloginfo('name') return the site name. I want the function that returns (return not echo) the name of the current page.

I am not sure what you want to get from what input. Page's title from page's URL? Page slug from something? Please write it out more clearly.

Rarst · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-18 09:24:22Z

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To display title of current page you use the_title() template tag.

Related and slightly more specific functions are:

get_the_title() that returns title without echoing and can retrieve title of another page/post, given its ID as input;
the_title_attribute() that returns a little more cleaned up version (safer to use in link titles without breaking markup and such) and takes arguments in query string format.

answered Jan 18 '11 at 9:24

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	Thanks alot – danyentezari Jan 18 '11 at 9:26
	Or maybe even `get_query_var('pagename')`? – t31os Jan 18 '11 at 16:34
	@t31os if I am not mistaken that would be slug and not title. – Rarst♦ Jan 18 '11 at 16:59
	Oh yes of course, my bad... – t31os Jan 18 '11 at 18:08

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