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Suppose that I create a page in the admin section (under 'Pages') and I have permalinks turned on and this pages slug is 'my-new-page', then is there a WordPress function that will work outside the (blog) Loop that I can use in that page's template on my theme that will retrieve that page's permalink?

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get_permalink() ? – One Trick Pony Jan 14 '11 at 0:14
Thanks for your help guys. – racl101 Jan 16 '11 at 2:21

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Hi @racl101:

I think what you are after is to use get_page_link($post->ID). The value $post will have been set by the default query to be equal to the post for the current page and should be in scope when your page template is run.

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Also if your code is in a function, make sure that you make $post global. – Manny Fleurmond Jan 14 '11 at 3:08
@Manny Fleurmond - Good point. – MikeSchinkel♦ Jan 14 '11 at 5:59
Wow thanks Mike! That totally worked. – racl101 Jan 20 '11 at 0:49
@racl101 - You are welcome. :) – MikeSchinkel♦ Jan 20 '11 at 6:49
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yes first of all you would need to require wp-load.php in your custom area using this code:

 <?php
 require( '../my_wordpress_install_root/wp-load.php' ); ?>

And after that you can follow thsi tut to call any page : http://www.snilesh.com/resources/wordpress/wordpress-tips-and-tricks/wordpress-get-page-content-by-page-id/

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The original question describes then need to call it outside the Loop, but still in WordPress templates - core would be loaded just fine as usual. – Rarst♦ Jan 14 '11 at 6:30

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