Find the page or post for a given permalink

Today I was wondering how I can get the page object, including the page_id from WordPress.

After some investigation I figured out, that the permalink is written in the page_name in each posts wp_posts table.

Then figured out, that the WordPress function get_page_by_path($page_path, $output = OBJECT, $post_type = ‘page’) could solve my problem.

So, then I just called this method with the given permalink as path and it worked.

So for example, have permalink of our website http://www.mywebsite.com/about and we want to have that page object of the about – page:


// define the permalink path
$permalink = 'about';

// get the page object from the permalink
$page = get_page_by_path($permalink);


This was performed on a WordPress 3.0.1.

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