Link won't show using the_permalink();

Question

Inside my loop, I'm trying to have a link show and it won't I'm not sure why

Here is the code:

<?php the_title('<h2 class="wow"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"', '</a></h2>'); ?>

I understand this is maybe because of the '' quotations instead of "", but how would I achieve this general thing with just PHP and not by wrapping the_title(); in an a tag.

Answer 1

because the_title() expects a string for the $before and $after args, you need to use the string version of the permalink, in a string concatenation;

<?php the_title('<h2 class="wow"><a href="'.get_permalink().'">', '</a></h2>'); ?>

you also had a missing >.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_permalink/

Answer 2

You can't nest these functions. Change your code to

<h2 class="wow"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

Answer 3

23 seconds too late.

I think the issue is that you have a double open/close statement.

Without seeing your code, I would suggest you to edit your line of code as

<h2 class="wow"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_the_title(); ?></a></h2>