I am creating a custom WordPress theme and i am little stuck in one situation . what i want is that http://192.168.1.50/jobifylocal/resume/paulwoods/ get the name : paulwoods in a $variable. Note every-time there is new name instead of paulwoods, when i click on a post. Does anybody have a clue how can i get it ? I searched on google but no relevant problems found, and also i don't have any clue to do that.

I am creating a custom WordPress theme and i am little stuck in one situation . what i want is that http://192.168.1.50/jobifylocal/resume/paulwoods/ get the name : paulwoods in a $variable. Note every-time there is new name instead of paulwoods, when i click on a post. Does anybody have a clue how can i get it ? I searched on google but no relevant problems found, and also i don't have any clue to do that.

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I believe you should be able to use this:

global $post;
$page_slug = $post->post_name;

Where $page_slug is the variable you're looking for. This has a pretty good explanation of why that works: https://blog.wplauncher/get-current-page-slug-wordpress/