How to Get Parent Page Title in WordPress [Snippet]

In WordPress, pages can be hierarchical. So, you can set a page as a parent or child of another page. If you want to be able to show the title of the current page’s parent, here’s a quick PHP code snippet you can use.

This snippet will help you detect if the current page has a parent and if it does, then it will output the title of the parent page:

// Get the current post object, which in this case will be the current page.
global $post;

// Check if the current page has a parent page.
if( $post->post_parent ){
	$title = get_the_title($post->post_parent); // Get the title of the parent page.
	echo $title;
}

The above code first gets the current $post variable. This variable contains the current page that the user is on. Then it checks if the current post has a post_parent. If it does, then it gets the title of the post parent using get_the_title and outputs it.

You can also get the ID of the parent page the same way:

global $post; // Get the current post (page).

// Check if this page has a parent page.
if ( $post->post_parent ) {
	echo $post->post_parent; // Output the ID of the parent page.
}