I want to see the content of the $post object in the front end. I want to do it via functions.php.

What I'm doing in function.php is:

global $post;
print_r($post);

But nothing shows up in the frontend. What am I doing wrong here?

I want to see the content of the $post object in the front end. I want to do it via functions.php.

What I'm doing in function.php is:

global $post;
print_r($post);

But nothing shows up in the frontend. What am I doing wrong here?

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1 Answer 1

Because in functions.php, it is too early to just run the print_r(), you may run it within a init hook like this:

Placing it inside theme's functions.php

add_action( 'init', 'test_trace' );
function test_trace() {
  global $post;
  print_r($post);
}