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Get published date of Wordpress post from URL

For a gym website, I'm making them have a members area where users can view Nutrition plans that have been created for them.

I check what Nutrition plans are available using "the_slug_exists".

eg. 

if (the_slug_exists("nutrition-plan-$userid")) { // show link to nutrition plan 1 }

and

if (the_slug_exists("nutrition-plan-$userid-2")) { // show link to nutrition plan 2 }

This works fine but currently, I can only name them generically (Nutrition plan 1, Nutrition plan 2, etc.)

Is there a way of getting more information from inside the post? Like when it was published, or one of the other fields, just with the URL.

If not maybe I can find another way of relating those custom post types to each user in a way that I can access post data from them.

Thanks in advance for any help

Solution

  • I figure it out...

    $thisurl = 'https://evolvefitness.co.uk/nutrition-plans/nutrition-plan-'.$userid;
$npid = url_to_postid($thisurl);
echo get_the_date('d/m/y', $npid);

    hope that will help someone