Dynamic href link to Contact Page

Question

I need a <a href="Something Like <?get_contact_page>">Contact Page</a> Code that always links to the Contact page, no matter what is it's ID

There's a page template for contact page.

Is it possible to do this?

I'll gladly provide any further information you need :)

Thanks!!

Answer 1

If the contact page is identified solely by the associated template, you can query for a page with the template name in meta key _wp_page_template:

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'posts_per_page' => 1,
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => '_wp_page_template',
            'value' => 'contact_template.php'
        )
    )
);
$contact_page = new WP_Query( $args );

if( ! empty( $contact_page->posts ) )
    echo get_permalink( $contact_page->post->ID );

Answer 2

You're in luck. Wordpress stores a pages template value in a hidden custom field not visible in the backend but very much exists called, "_wp_page_template". I created the following function which should return an array or a single key of data for you.

I put the code on Github Gist here because it's a little long. I did some testing and it seems to work! Should do what you want it too.

Answer 3

There is a function called get_page_by_title() that you might find useful:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_page_by_title

If the title is always "Contact Page" then you can use

<?php $page = get_page_by_title("Contact Page");?>

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink( $page->ID ); ?>">Link to my Contact Page</a>