The loop is what gets and displays any posts – even just one:
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
‘technically’ you only need to use the_post(); – this will get the next post object of the loop (or the only post object in a page.php template);
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post
this might generate an error of there is not post (untested), therefore I would consider it a good habit always to use the full loop code.
Thank you all for your answers!
So i think its safe to have the_title() outside of loop. As it will always be a single post. I was concerned that there are situations where the page.php template will list more than one post, and that i wasnt aware of such case.
My current code looks like this:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="container breadcrumb">
<div class="inner-container clearfix">
<span class="dot"></span>
<h1 class="h2"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="inner-container clearfix">
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class('clearfix'); ?> role="article">
<section class="entry-content">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</section> <!-- end article section -->
</article> <!-- end article -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
So i think its safe to have the_title() outside of loop.
no – although it might seem to work in most cases, this also might get random results.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_title
In such case, is there a safe way to have the title of the post outside of loop? Can you please make a suggestion here?
@mariusbratu –
You should be able to safely echo get_the_title(); outside of the loop,,
