Post ID shown in Post Title

Pretty please?

Take a look at the the_title() function. Notice the ‘$before’ and ‘$after’ variables. Those behave just as their names suggest. Something like
the_title('#'.$post->ID.' '); should give you what you want.

Thanks a lot! That did the trick exactly!

The only downside is that uses the actual post ID and not the number of published post. So posts I deleted are counted as well.

Nevertheless, thanks for your help.

Yes, that will show the Post ID. To get a post’s place in the set of published posts I’m pretty sure you’ll have to cook up a custom MySQL query. It shouldn’t be too hard if you want to give it shot.

Found this — hope it helps

Create a new function in the Functions.php as follows

function Get_Post_Number($postID){
	$temp_query = $wp_query;
	$postNumberQuery = new WP_Query('orderby=date&order=<strong>DESC</strong>&posts_per_page=-1');
	$counter = 1;
	$postCount = 0;
	if($postNumberQuery->have_posts()) :
		while ($postNumberQuery->have_posts()) : $postNumberQuery->the_post();
			if ($postID == get_the_ID()){
				$postCount = $counter;
			} else {
				$counter++;
			}
	endwhile; endif;
	wp_reset_query();
	$wp_query = $temp_query;
	return $postCount;
}

(Change above bolded ASC to DESC if you want to see the numbers in reverse (latest post as highest number).)

Then in the index.php (or page template), anywhere after “<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>” just add the following code wherever you want the Post # to show up.

<?php $currentID = get_the_ID(); ?>
<?php $currentNumber = Get_Post_Number($currentID); ?>

<?php echo $currentNumber; ?>

Good luck!!!