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This is a simple question, that's probably been asked before. For internal links between pages, is it better to use a relative link or full permalink?

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It depends on what you're talking about. If you're talking about using just

<a href="/page-title">Page Title</a>, then no. It's better to use the full link.

However, instead of using http://www.domain.com/page-title, it's better to use

<?php echo bloginfo('url'); ?>/page-title.

The reason you don't want to use relative links is the way wordpress permalinks work. If you're on a sub-page (domain.com/about/john) and you use a relative link to another subpage (href="/jane"), it will point to the root URL (domain.com/jane instead of domain/about/jane.

UPDATE

The full <a> will be

<a href="<?php echo bloginfo('url'); ?>/page-title">Page Title</a>

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Hi Josh, Thank you very much for your explanation. Just to clarify, the best way is to do it like so: <a href="<?php echo bloginfo('home'); ?>/page-title</a> ? Did I understand correctly? What if the structure of my site is: domain.com/subpage/subpage/page-title. Would bloginfo('home') find a page that is down the hierarchy? Thank you! – Laxmidi Jul 30 '11 at 3:47
Laxmidi, check my update. You want to have /page-title after the <?php ?> tag, but before the end of the href="" attribute. – Josh Allen Jul 30 '11 at 3:58
bloginfo('home') gets the domain entered in Settings -> General -> Wordpress address (URL) – Josh Allen Jul 30 '11 at 4:00
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bloginfo( 'home' ) is deprecated use bloginfo( 'url' ) instead. See the Codex for proper usage of bloginfo() – Chris_O Jul 30 '11 at 4:10
@Chris_O updated answer to show 'url' instead of 'home'. Thanks for the info. – Josh Allen Jul 30 '11 at 4:15
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