It’s easy enough to print the current title of the page you’re on in WordPress.. but what if you want to print the page’s parent title before the current page title (to help users know what section they are in most likely)? Here is a little chunk of code I used recently.. basically the code says “if the page has a parent print that parent’s name and then the name of the current page, if it doesn’t have a parent just print the name of the current page”. The span isn’t needed, I was using that for styling purposes, keep or remove it if you want..
<h1 class="entry-title"> <?php
if($post->post_parent) {
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title;
echo ': ';
echo '<span>';
echo get_the_title($post->ID);
echo '</span>';
}
else {
echo get_the_title($post->ID);
}
?></h1>
