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Trying to be tricky here, I want to show a list of articles with their author and excerpt. I'm using a custom field and want the user to just be able to list the URLs on their own line and that's it.

Is there a way to look up the non-rewritten url based on the friendly one? Then just pull the article ID from there via regex?

To further clarify:

Say this is the URL http://www.site.com/2013/10/wearable-tech-trends-element14.html

Can I take it back (decode) to? http://www.site.com/?p=123

So I can grab the 123 and use that to find the author and excerpt.

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  • Maybe is my poor english, but I understand nothing. Can you post an example?
    – gmazzap
    Commented Oct 8, 2013 at 16:04
  • ok, example in the post.
    – ok1ha
    Commented Oct 8, 2013 at 16:16

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There is a function called url_to_postid

$id = url_to_postid( get_permalink(40) ); // $id will be 40

Actually (WP 3.6) it works only for standard posts and page, but with WP 3.7 it will also work for custom post types.

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  • This is a good place to learn.. :) @AmalMurali
    – gmazzap
    Commented Oct 8, 2013 at 18:20

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