[gray]

Here’s my version:

$title = ucwords(str_replace('-', ' ', get_query_var('pagename')));

get_query_var(‘pagename’) was just giving me the page slug. So the above replaces all the dashes, and makes the first letter of each word uppercase – so it can actually be used as a title.

[sy-holloway]

I believe that the Roots starter theme has a fantastic function to get the current page title. It is very hackable, covers all bases, and can be easily used with the wp_title hook.

/**
 * Page titles
 */
function roots_title() {
  if (is_home()) {
    if (get_option('page_for_posts', true)) {
      echo get_the_title(get_option('page_for_posts', true));
    } else {
      _e('Latest Posts', 'roots');
    }
  } elseif (is_archive()) {
    $term = get_term_by('slug', get_query_var('term'), get_query_var('taxonomy'));
    if ($term) {
      echo $term->name;
    } elseif (is_post_type_archive()) {
      echo get_queried_object()->labels->name;
    } elseif (is_day()) {
      printf(__('Daily Archives: %s', 'roots'), get_the_date());
    } elseif (is_month()) {
      printf(__('Monthly Archives: %s', 'roots'), get_the_date('F Y'));
    } elseif (is_year()) {
      printf(__('Yearly Archives: %s', 'roots'), get_the_date('Y'));
    } elseif (is_author()) {
      $author = get_queried_object();
      printf(__('Author Archives: %s', 'roots'), $author->display_name);
    } else {
      single_cat_title();
    }
  } elseif (is_search()) {
    printf(__('Search Results for %s', 'roots'), get_search_query());
  } elseif (is_404()) {
    _e('Not Found', 'roots');
  } else {
    the_title();
  }
}

[rahul-balakrishna]

We just need to use the “post” global variable:

global $post;
echo $post->post_title;

This will echo the current page/post title.

[therichpost]

Show the title before the loop starts:

$page_title = $wp_query->post->post_title;

[grant]

This is what I ended up using, as of 2018:

<section id="top-<?=(is_front_page() ? 'home' : basename(get_permalink()));?>">

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