Magento 1.9 CMS Pages – Get Specific or Any CMS Page Title

The quick and dirty way to do it.

To cut prefix:

<?php 
$prefix = Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_prefix');
$title = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('head')->getTitle();
$processedTitle = trim(substr($title, strlen($prefix)));
?>
<h1><?php echo $processedTitle;?></h1>

To cut suffix:

<?php 
$suffix = Mage::getStoreConfig('design/head/title_suffix');
$title = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('head')->getTitle();
$processedTitle = substr($title, 0, strlen($suffix) * -1);
?>
<h1><?php echo $processedTitle;?></h1>

Joe78,

I put this:

<? var_dump(Mage::getSingleton('core/design_package')->getPackageName()); ?>

At the bottom of the footer.phtml file in magento/app/design/frontend/rwd/default/template/page/html (before even running the installer) on a fresh unpack of 1.9.

As soon as I loaded the frontend up I found string 'rwd' (length=3) in my site's footer.

I believe what package you have returned is going to depend on where exactly you put the package call. Also the following:

<? var_dump(Mage::getSingleton('core/design_package')->getTheme('frontend')); ?>

should in-fact return "default" on a vanilla 1.9 install as you're using magento/app/design/frontend/rwd/default as your theme.

For more info or to dive into how core/design_package is structured simply add the following to a template file:

<? var_dump(Mage::getSingleton('core/design_package')); ?>

The response you get should start out with something like:

object(Mage_Core_Model_Design_Package)[133]
  protected '_store' => null
  protected '_area' => string 'frontend' (length=8)
  protected '_name' => string 'rwd' (length=3)
  protected '_theme' => 
    array (size=5)
      'locale' => string 'default' (length=7)
      'default' => null
      'layout' => string 'default' (length=7)
      'template' => string 'default' (length=7)
      'skin' => string 'default' (length=7)

For a little more insight into how exactly design/package fallback works in 1.9 take a gander at the files in magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Design

Hope this helps!