resetting “the_title”

  • I’m sure this is a very simple php issue – but my skills are limited and I wanted to see if someone could guide me in the right direction.

    I have a page where I want to display “the title” of the page at the top, then run a query to pull three posts from a given category and then display “the title” of the page again.

    The title displays perfectly the first time, then after the query to display the 3 posts runs the title displays ast the title of the last post in the query. How do I reset my query so that when I request the title a second time it is the actual title of the page?

    Here is my basic code:

    <?php the_title(); ?>

<!-- feature/banner container starts -->
<div class="banner">
<div class="img_container">
<img id="large_gallery_image" src="" alt=""/>
</div>
<ul class="thumb_img" id="thumb_gallery_images">
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query('category_name=hq-feature&showposts=4');
$i=1;
while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

<!--
<li><?php get_the_image( "custom_key=featureThumb&default_size=thumbnail&width=44&image_class=attachment-thumbnail&default_image=$default_thumb" ); ?></li>-->

<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" rel="img<?php echo "$i"; ?>.jpg"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/includes/images/thumb<?php echo "$i"; ?>.jpg" alt="img<?php echo "$i"; ?>" /></a></li>

<?php
$i++;
endwhile; ?>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="gallery_image_text_container" class="details">
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query('category_name=hq-feature&showposts=4');
$i=1;
while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
<div class="img<?php echo "$i"; ?>">
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<p><strong><?php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt(), '<a><strong>'); ?></strong></p>
<!--<p>...<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">Read More</a></p>-->
</div>
<?php
$i++;
endwhile; ?>
</div>

<?php the_title(); ?>

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  • You may want to check out the Page Of Posts Page Template.

    try to use ‘wp_reset_query();’ after the end of the custom loop.

    alternatively, you could save the title in a variable at the beginning
    $this_title = the_title(false);

    and echo it at the second occasion:
    echo $this_title;

    the variable name is arbitrary; and make sure this code is inside php tags.

    Thread Starter frescova

    (@frescova)

    Thanks alchymyth!

    “wp_reset_query();” did the trick.

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