Calling Permalinks With PHP

Question

I'm developing a theme which supports WordPress' post formats. As a result I am using a big if statement, which can be found below.

• I would like to link my post titles to the posts while maintaining my theme as XHTML valid.
• I would like to call images (with classes) in the if statement while maintaining my theme as XHTML valid.
• I would appreciate if somebody could add the appropriate code to the following code to do so

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if ( has_post_format( 'video' )) {
                echo the_title();
                echo the_excerpt();
}

EDIT: Basically, the most important thing I'm looking for is that it calls the post name as a link which links to the actual post.

Answer 1

I don't know what you mean by "call images", but this will display the title as a link.

if ( has_post_format( 'video' )) {
   ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><?php 
   the_excerpt();
}

Answer 2

You only need to add in the <a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a> to link the post and also add the title as the visible part of the link. Also you can replace <?php the_title();?> for a thumbnail (with the correct funct.) or an image, a video, a button, etc. and another kind of php stament as well <?php your_function(your args);?>.

As far as your other question goes, I think that you'll need to add a category for videos and make an special CSS for that. I'll leave two posts, they are in spanish but they are really useful and they work very well: first how to add a different structure How to: different structure per category and then how to style it How to: style each category differently

Hope you find this response helpful ^^

Answer 3

So:

<?php if ( has_post_format( 'video' )) { ?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a>
    <?php the_excerpt();?>
<?php } else {;?> If you plan on adding something else. otherwise just delete this line and close with the next one only

<?php } ;?>

And that's it, hope you find this helpful!!