Display Page Title / Name

2 seconds on google:
https://www.sitefinity.com/developer-network/marketplace/integrations/m-waqar-haider/custom-page-title-widget

both the_title and get_the_title use the global $post object, so in your code try adding global $post.

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/get_the_title/

@sterndata can you explain a little more in detail?

Are you writing a widget? If so, please post your code on pastebin.com or github.com.

the_title() and get_the_title() are specifically for post titles. Since most widgets can appear on any page of the site, many of which may be a list of posts instead of a single post, such as posts with a certain category term, I suggest you use wp_title(). This is often the same function themes use in header files for content between <title> tags. This function may return or output more content than you like. You can alter this with the ‘wp_title’ filter.

@bcworkz tried using <?php wp_title(); ?> still no go.

Got it to work. Didn’t realize that text widgets don’t recognize php, so I just added the following code to the functions.php
add_filter(‘widget_text’,’execute_php’,100);
function execute_php($html){
if(strpos($html,”<“.”?php”)!==false){
ob_start();
eval(“?”.”>”.$html);
$html=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
}
return $html;
}

Works fine now

You’ve just created an incredible security hole in your site. Anyone who can add a widget can now execute arbitrary PHP code!

Agreed, eval() on external input is a great toehold for hackers. Because your initial example included PHP, I assumed you were writing a custom widget and not including PHP in content.

Alter your filter callback to place the title where you want it without putting PHP in the text content and evaluating it. If need be you could include a unique tag in content that your callback replaces with the current page’s title.