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Posted by Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

get_permalink not working on my home page

the_permalink links perfectly to my individuals posts in my blog page but fail to link to the post that l feature in my home page as the latest post. any ideas how l can reslove this guys?

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Kelvin,

Could you please post the code you have for your homepage, thanks.

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/posting-code-to-the-forum

Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

thanks for the reply Chris Upjohn the code is been pasted belwo. Thanks again buddy

Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

thanks for the reply Chris Upjohn the code is been pasted belwo. Thanks again buddy

3 Answers

Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points
Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

code in my home.php for the wordpress loop to display my post and working perfectly is as below

<aside <?php post_class('post'); ?>>
             <?php if( get_the_post_thumbnail() ) : ?>
          <figure><?php the_post_thumbnail('large'); ?></figure>
          <?php endif; ?>  

          <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

          <p>Posted on <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?></p>

          <p><?php echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); ?></p>

          <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="more">More <span>+</span></a> 
          </aside>
          <?php endwhile; else : ?>

              <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no pages found.' ); ?></p>

            <?php endif; ?>

          <div class="read-more"><a href="#">Read More <br /> <span>+</span></a>

Code in my page.php which is not working as expected is as below

<?php 

                      query_posts( 'posts_per_page= 1' );

                    ?>
                    <h2>Latest News</h2>
                    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
                    <aside>
                        <p><q><?php echo substr(get_the_excerpt(),0,120); ?>...</q></p>
                        <p class="txt"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="more">View Post ></a>
                        </p>

                        <?php if( get_the_post_thumbnail() ) : ?>
                         <figure><?php the_post_thumbnail('large'); ?></figure>
                         <?php endif; ?>

                        <a href="<?php echo get_permalink( 27 ); ?>" class="more">Go to news ></a>
                    </aside>
                    <?php endwhile; else : ?>

                    <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no pages found.' ); ?></p>

                    <?php endif; ?>
Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi,

It looks like you're using two different approaches on the page.php page:

get_permalink( 27 );

and

the_permalink()

Are either ones working?

Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

Hi Zac Gordon my bad l should have went into details in my post sorry. the get_permalink(27) is working perfectly and links to my home.php. however the idea was for the_permalink to link to the individual post that l featured but not functioning asuch.

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Sorry for the lengthy delay, there's no code issues within the loop that I can see, the only thing I don't see it wp_reset_query() which is required after the loop when using query_posts() and/or WP_Query.

Aside from that everything seems to be in order.