Title: Current post template tags Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Current post template tags * [erick_paper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erick_paper/) * (@erick_paper) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/current-post-template-tags/) * I am looking for making my single post template. * Inside the loop, I want to have: * 1. The title 2. The current post’s slug 3. The previous link in the same category, but I want the title and link separately 4. The next post in the same category, with title and link separate * The code for 1 works, it’s `get_the_title()`. * The code for 2 – there seems to be no tag, so I myself try to do `strtolower` and `str_replace` of the title. Is there an easier way? Why can’t I access the current post’s slug? * The code for 3 and 4 – “previous_post_link” only seems to want to give the entire link with A HREF and all. How can I make it give me only the link and title of the previous and next posts separately to use in my own code (because I need to put a