• Hello, a simple question for somebody but not for me:

    developing a template I would like to show in the footer
    (for debugging use) the .php page name it’s currently
    being loaded from WP

    I know I can use a series of “if” and Conditional Tags
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
    but the question is if it’s possible to use a simpler
    function, something like
    “this_template_page_name()”
    (in my dreams)

    Thanks

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  • try:

    <?php $page_id = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id();
    echo get_post_meta( $page_id, '_wp_page_template', true ); ?>

    (extracted from:
    http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/wp-includes/post-template.php.source.html#l350
    lines 426 and 441)

    Thread Starter taloweb

    (@taloweb)

    Are you sure about this?
    I can’t echoing anything from this function…I’m using WP 3.0.1

    Please take a look at the bottom of the page between
    http://www.levantenews.it

    this is the code:
    <div id=”credits”>
    <div id=”ftnav”><span class=”rss”>” title=”<?php _e(‘Subscribe to RSS’); ?>” rel=”nofollow”><?php _e(‘<abbr title=”Subscribe to RSS”>RSS</abbr>’); ?></span></div>
    <small>Copyright © <?php echo date(“Y”); ?> <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> All rights reserved.
      [<?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> query – <?php timer_stop(1); ?> secondi]</small>.

    [[
    <?php $page_id = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id();
    echo get_post_meta( $page_id, ‘_wp_page_template’, true ); ?>
    ]]

    <?php wp_footer(); ?>
    </div></div>

    it will only show if you are on a page or page template, as in
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates
    (a ‘normal’ page will show ‘default’)
    it does not show the template file names, such as index.php, category.pgp, or so.

    click on ‘cerca’ for instance – it will show ‘searchpage.php’ at the bottom.

    (if it is just for debugging, you could simply add
    <?php body_class(); ?>
    after the other code or instead – that would also give you some information about what templates are getting used)

    Thread Starter taloweb

    (@taloweb)

    Ok, I thank you very much, as I can understand
    _wp_page_template is not used for post or archive pages

    this is a good point of start for me, but I’ll continue to search a (simple) trick to show the real template page used by WP.

    WordPress uses a variable $template to store the template being used. Therefore, for debugging (not recommended for a live site), you can put this in your theme’s functions.php:

    add_action('wp_head', 'show_template');
    function show_template() {
    	global $template;
    	print_r($template);
    }
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