May 04, 2016
Useful way to grab the title from the page ancestor, and setup child page titles.
$current = $post->ID;
$parent = $post->post_parent;
$grandparent_get = get_post($parent);
$grandparent = $grandparent_get->post_parent;
if ($root_parent = get_the_title($grandparent) !== $root_parent = get_the_title($current)) {
echo get_the_title($grandparent);
} else {
echo get_the_title($parent);
}
Sourced here.
