Find parent post of an attachment

  • Resolved falk07

    (@falk07)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hello wp-experts,

    I’ve got a loop with search-results, containing posts, pages and attachments. In case i find an attachment, i’d like to permalink to the containing article – not to the attachment page.
    After a little search in this forum, i tried this peace of code:

    <?php  if(get_post_type() == 'attachment') {

						 echo get_permalink()."<br />";
						 echo get_permalink($post->post_parent)."<br />";
						 $parent = get_post($post->post_parent);
						 echo get_permalink($parent->post_parent);
					 }
					?>

    But every line returns the same permalink: the link to the attachment-page.
    Do you have an idea how to do this right?

    Thanks in advance,
    Alex

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  • When I try it the second line works.
    echo get_permalink($post->post_parent)
    But when an attachment is not attached to a post, it returns the same url as the others. This is because no ID will be sent to get_permalink, so it runs exactly the same as the first one. Check that your attachment is attached to a post, that is probably the problem.

    Thread Starter falk07

    (@falk07)

    haha, didn’t see the forest for all the trees ??
    That’s it – thanks a lot for leading me in the right direction!

    Alex

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