Can't get correct Post ID using cloud template

When i try to get post ID it returns the ID of the cloud template not the ID of the actual single post.

the cloud template ID is:215 the single post ID is:1911 the following code will only output 215

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function metavalue() {
global $post;
$meta = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'product_url', true);
return $meta
}
add_shortcode('url_short', 'metavalue');

get_the_ID(); the_id(); $post->ID; will also output 215. i need a way to get the actual single post ID so i can get the custom field value from ‘product_url’.

• This topic was modified 7 years by vexicon.

Hello,

Is there an answer to this question ? I’m working on a template but Cloud Template overrides the_ID() value of the “real” post displayed 🙁

This is what I ended up doing to resolve the problem.
function properid() {
global $wp;
$url = home_url( $wp->request );
$correct_post_id = url_to_postid( $url );
return $correct_post_id; // returns post id for current post
}

Thanks for you answer but after thousands of lines read, I believe I found an even better way !

global $tdb_state_single;
$post_id = $tdb_state_single->get_wp_query()->post->ID;

Thanks! This was what I was looking for, though I wonder if another issue I have is related to have Newspaper template changes the get id.

I had to go with vexicon solution, though I think this is messy with all the extra calls and look forward to finding a better solution. I think part of the issue is where I am altering the plugins code it runs multiple times and the last Get-ID is always a template, so grabbing URL > ID seems to be the only solution so far.