/*
* Slug Links suite of functions
*/
function the_slug($post_id)
{
$post_data = get_post($post_id, ARRAY_A);

// if it has a prent, get that slug too
if($post_data['post_parent'])
{
$output.= the_slug($post_data['post_parent']).”/”;
}
else
{
$output = “/”.$output;
}
$output .= $post_data['post_name'];

return $output;
}

/*
* Shortcode for slug function
* ie. [s p=1]
*/
function the_slug_shortcode($atts)
{
$short_array = shortcode_atts(array(’p’ => ”), $atts);
extract($short_array);

return the_slug($p);
}
add_shortcode(’s’, ‘the_slug_shortcode’);

function post_slug($str)
{
return strtolower(preg_replace(array(’/[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]/’, ‘/[ -]+/’, ‘/^-|-$/’), array(”, ‘-’, ”), remove_accent($str)));
}

I needed to use the_slug() to dynamically display posts that were tagged the same as the slug name of the container page, and I needed to do it over the course of 4 loops on that single page. So I wanted to use the_slug() in conjunction with query_post – my query_post looked something like this:

‘News’,
‘orderby’=>’date’,
‘order’=>’DESC’,
‘tag’=>the_slug(),
‘posts_per_page’ => 2,
));

The problem was it would only work 1 time on page. When I attempted to recycle the loop, the_slug() would not work again.

SO, I declared at the top of my template php file:

get_header();
$slugger=the_slug();

Then, for each of my 4 loops, my query_post looked like this:

‘News’,
‘orderby’=>’date’,
‘order’=>’DESC’,
‘tag’=>$slugger,
‘posts_per_page’ => 2,
));

This time it worked like a charm! I was able to recycle that function for all 4 of my loops on page.

Your code has really helped me getting this working. Thanks for your efforts.