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Both functions return permalink to the post or page by it's ID. What are the differences and which of these functions should I use in which cases?

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When i explored the WordPress core for this answer i found that get_permalink() function internally calls get_page_link() function for getting permalink of page and it calls get_post_permalink() function to get permalink of post.

Therefore either you use get_permalink() function or get_page_link() function, you will get same result.

The difference between these two is get_page_link() function handles page_on_front page set in back end whereas get_post_permalink() function do not consider it.

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  • I just discovered that the result is not exactly the same, because get_page_link returns "page_id=XX", while get_permalink returns nice url like "page/subpage".
    – Robert Zelník
    Aug 25, 2013 at 5:31
  • @RobertZelník ok. Can you tell me what's your permalink structure?
    – Vinod Dalvi
    Aug 25, 2013 at 6:50
  • It is strange but I can not reproduce the issue anymore. Something has probably changed and now both get_page_link and get_permalink return "page_id=XX".
    – Robert Zelník
    Aug 26, 2013 at 18:37
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In my opinion get_page_link is for displaying the link and get_permalink is not for displaying the link.

WordPress Codex says: get_permalink: It does NOT display the permalink.

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    This is a common property of all functions starting with "get_" - both get_page_link and get_permalink do not display anything, they just return a value. If we want to display the result, we can add <?php echo get_page_link($id) ?>.
    – Robert Zelník
    Aug 25, 2013 at 5:28

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