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Darren Healy
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Darren Healy
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Darren Healy
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 23,565 Points

What is the answer.... (function to echo link to page or post within loop)?

For the life of me, I can't get this. I've reviewed the videos and I'm working along too. I've been on the functions reference page of the codex. Maybe I'm overlooking something really simple, but I just can't get the answer to this question:

"To echo out the link to a post or page within a Loop, you would use the _____________ () function."

Can someone just tell me what it is so I can look it up?

4 Answers

Mike Babb
Mike Babb
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Mike Babb
Mike Babb
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the_permalink() will echo the link to the current post or page within the loop, or you can use something like "echo get_permalink(15)" to return a link to the page with an ID of 15, for example. More here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink

Muhammad Mohsen
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Muhammad Mohsen
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Muhammad Mohsen
Muhammad Mohsen
Courses Plus Student 10,843 Points

That should be the_permalink(), Have you tried it?

Mike Babb
Mike Babb
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Mike Babb
Mike Babb
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I've been working with WordPress for a while and it still catches me out occasionally. Many functions have both "the" and "get" variations, for outputting or just storing values.

Muhammad Mohsen
Muhammad Mohsen
Courses Plus Student 10,843 Points

Mike Babb Sometimes you would need to apply any kind of customization or sensitization on your titles or permalinks, etc.

get_.......(); allows you to store the retrieved data into a variable rather than printing it directly, So you can do what you need with it first.

That's why get_ functions exist.

Zeljko Porobija
Zeljko Porobija
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Zeljko Porobija
Zeljko Porobija
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the_permalink() is the correct answer. get_permalink just stores the data of the link, not outputing it.