Occasionally, developers of Wordpress themes and plugins may have need to locate a page, a post, and get the ID before the post object is done with it’s initial query. If you - like many developers out there - have discovered that the url_to_postid function is insufficient, you are NOT alone. The function I created (shown below) will make your day a happier one.
What does this function do?
First, the function checks for an existing post_id query variable. Then it checks if there’s a custom post type by a prefix name. The function works on both secure and non-secure URLs, with permalinks on or off, and with virtually any URL that may exist within a WordPress install. If nothing is found, 0 is returned.
How did you make this?
Lots of trial and error, and suffering! For Redux Framework, I created the metaboxes extension. The extension required the discovery of the custom post data at any given time, on any page, even outside of loops. The challenge of overcoming this particular issue was not an easy one, and it’s been over a year in the making. But, all that work finally came to a point where every use case works. It’s tried and true, tested by thousands of users world-wide. :)
One Function to Rule Them All
<?php
/* Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Dovy Paukstys - All Rights Reserved
* You may use, distribute and modify this code under the
* terms of The Do What The F*** You Want To Public License (WTFPL).
*
* If it helps you, please GratiPay me: https://gratipay.com/dovy/
*/
function DOVYio_url_to_postid( $url ) {
global $wp_rewrite;
if ( ! empty( $this->post_id ) ) {
return $this->post_id;
}
if ( isset( $_GET['post'] ) && ! empty( $_GET['post'] ) && is_numeric( $_GET['post'] ) ) {
return $_GET['post'];
}
// First, check to see if there is a 'p=N' or 'page_id=N' to match against
if ( preg_match( '#[?&](p|page_id|attachment_id)=(\d+)#', $url, $values ) ) {
$id = absint( $values[2] );
if ( $id ) {
return $id;
}
}
// Check to see if we are using rewrite rules
if ( isset( $wp_rewrite ) ) {
$rewrite = $wp_rewrite->wp_rewrite_rules();
}
// Not using rewrite rules, and 'p=N' and 'page_id=N' methods failed, so we're out of options
if ( empty( $rewrite ) ) {
if ( isset( $_GET ) && ! empty( $_GET ) ) {
/************************************************************************
* ADDED: Trys checks URL for ?posttype=postname
*************************************************************************/
// Assign $url to $tempURL just incase. :)
$tempUrl = $url;
// Get rid of the #anchor
$url_split = explode( '#', $tempUrl );
$tempUrl = $url_split[0];
// Get rid of URL ?query=string
$url_query = explode( '&', $tempUrl );
$tempUrl = $url_query[0];
// Get rid of ? mark
$url_query = explode( '?', $tempUrl );
if ( isset( $url_query[1] ) && ! empty( $url_query[1] ) && strpos( $url_query[1], '=' ) ) {
$url_query = explode( '=', $url_query[1] );
if ( isset( $url_query[0] ) && isset( $url_query[1] ) ) {
$args = array(
'name' => $url_query[1],
'post_type' => $url_query[0],
'showposts' => 1,
);
if ( $post = get_posts( $args ) ) {
return $post[0]->ID;
}
}
}
//END ADDITION
//print_r($GLOBALS['wp_post_types']);
//if (isset($GLOBALS['wp_post_types']['acme_product']))
// Add custom rules for non-rewrite URLs
foreach ( $GLOBALS['wp_post_types'] as $key => $value ) {
if ( isset( $_GET[ $key ] ) && ! empty( $_GET[ $key ] ) ) {
$args = array(
'name' => $_GET[ $key ],
'post_type' => $key,
'showposts' => 1,
);
if ( $post = get_posts( $args ) ) {
return $post[0]->ID;
}
}
}
}
}
// Get rid of the #anchor
$url_split = explode( '#', $url );
$url = $url_split[0];
// Get rid of URL ?query=string
$url_query = explode( '?', $url );
$url = $url_query[0];
// Add 'www.' if it is absent and should be there
if ( false !== strpos( home_url(), '://www.' ) && false === strpos( $url, '://www.' ) ) {
$url = str_replace( '://', '://www.', $url );
}
// Strip 'www.' if it is present and shouldn't be
if ( false === strpos( home_url(), '://www.' ) ) {
$url = str_replace( '://www.', '://', $url );
}
// Strip 'index.php/' if we're not using path info permalinks
if ( isset( $wp_rewrite ) && ! $wp_rewrite->using_index_permalinks() ) {
$url = str_replace( 'index.php/', '', $url );
}
if ( false !== strpos( $url, home_url() ) ) {
// Chop off http://domain.com
$url = str_replace( home_url(), '', $url );
} else {
// Chop off /path/to/blog
$home_path = parse_url( home_url() );
$home_path = isset( $home_path['path'] ) ? $home_path['path'] : '';
$url = str_replace( $home_path, '', $url );
}
// Trim leading and lagging slashes
$url = trim( $url, '/' );
$request = $url;
if ( empty( $request ) && ( ! isset( $_GET ) || empty( $_GET ) ) ) {
return get_option( 'page_on_front' );
}
// Look for matches.
$request_match = $request;
foreach ( (array) $rewrite as $match => $query ) {
// If the requesting file is the anchor of the match, prepend it
// to the path info.
if ( ! empty( $url ) && ( $url != $request ) && ( strpos( $match, $url ) === 0 ) ) {
$request_match = $url . '/' . $request;
}
if ( preg_match( "!^$match!", $request_match, $matches ) ) {
// Got a match.
// Trim the query of everything up to the '?'.
$query = preg_replace( "!^.+\?!", '', $query );
// Substitute the substring matches into the query.
$query = addslashes( WP_MatchesMapRegex::apply( $query, $matches ) );
// Filter out non-public query vars
global $wp;
parse_str( $query, $query_vars );
$query = array();
foreach ( (array) $query_vars as $key => $value ) {
if ( in_array( $key, $wp->public_query_vars ) ) {
$query[ $key ] = $value;
}
}
/************************************************************************
* ADDED: $GLOBALS['wp_post_types'] doesn't seem to have custom postypes
* Trying below to find posttypes in $rewrite rules
*************************************************************************/
// PostType Array
$custom_post_type = false;
$post_types = array();
foreach ( $rewrite as $key => $value ) {
if ( preg_match( '/post_type=([^&]+)/i', $value, $matched ) ) {
if ( isset( $matched[1] ) && ! in_array( $matched[1], $post_types ) ) {
$post_types[] = $matched[1];
}
}
}
foreach ( (array) $query_vars as $key => $value ) {
if ( in_array( $key, $post_types ) ) {
$custom_post_type = true;
$query['post_type'] = $key;
$query['postname'] = $value;
}
}
// print_r($post_types);
/************************************************************************
* END ADD
*************************************************************************/
// Taken from class-wp.php
foreach ( $GLOBALS['wp_post_types'] as $post_type => $t ) {
if ( isset( $t->query_var ) ) {
$post_type_query_vars[ $t->query_var ] = $post_type;
}
}
foreach ( $wp->public_query_vars as $wpvar ) {
if ( isset( $wp->extra_query_vars[ $wpvar ] ) ) {
$query[ $wpvar ] = $wp->extra_query_vars[ $wpvar ];
} elseif ( isset( $_POST[ $wpvar ] ) ) {
$query[ $wpvar ] = $_POST[ $wpvar ];
} elseif ( isset( $_GET[ $wpvar ] ) ) {
$query[ $wpvar ] = $_GET[ $wpvar ];
} elseif ( isset( $query_vars[ $wpvar ] ) ) {
$query[ $wpvar ] = $query_vars[ $wpvar ];
}
if ( ! empty( $query[ $wpvar ] ) ) {
if ( ! is_array( $query[ $wpvar ] ) ) {
$query[ $wpvar ] = (string) $query[ $wpvar ];
} else {
foreach ( $query[ $wpvar ] as $vkey => $v ) {
if ( ! is_object( $v ) ) {
$query[ $wpvar ][ $vkey ] = (string) $v;
}
}
}
if ( isset( $post_type_query_vars[ $wpvar ] ) ) {
$query['post_type'] = $post_type_query_vars[ $wpvar ];
$query['name'] = $query[ $wpvar ];
}
}
}
// Do the query
if ( isset( $query['pagename'] ) && ! empty( $query['pagename'] ) ) {
$args = array(
'name' => $query['pagename'],
'post_type' => 'page',
'showposts' => 1,
);
if ( $post = get_posts( $args ) ) {
return $post[0]->ID;
}
}
$query = new WP_Query( $query );
if ( ! empty( $query->posts ) && $query->is_singular ) {
return $query->post->ID;
} else {
return 0;
}
}
}
return 0;
}
?>
Credits for this Work
I couldn’t have accomplished the feat alone. Admittedly, I stood on the back of giants, finishing off the work they began. I’d like to credit the following sources:
- The WordPress Core:
url_to_postid()inside ~/wp-includes/rewrite.php - Adaptions taken from http://betterwp.net/wordpress-tips/url_to_postid-for-custom-post-types/