Title: Get title for specific post
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Get title for specific post

 *  Resolved [lxg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mastermind/)
 * (@mastermind)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-title-for-specific-post/)
 * I’d like to retrieve the title for a specific post by its ID, just as I can get
   any post’s permalink with `<?php get_permalink(id); ?>`.
 * How could I do this?

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 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-title-for-specific-post/#post-375213)
 * How about
    `<?php $post_id_7 = get_post(7);  $title = $post_id_7->post_title;?
   >
 * Mentioned at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post)
 *  Thread Starter [lxg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mastermind/)
 * (@mastermind)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-title-for-specific-post/#post-375518)
 * Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed.

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 * Last reply from: [lxg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mastermind/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-title-for-specific-post/#post-375518)
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