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How to get URL of current page displayed?
get_permalink() is only really useful for single pages and posts, and only works inside the loop.
The simplest way I've seen is this:
global $wp;
echo home_url( $wp->request )
$wp->request ...
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Change media item permalink
Go to Media Library
Find the Image
Click Edit Image
Click Edit more details (at bottom right, very easy to miss)
Find the Screen Options (top right) and enable the Slug checkbox
Scroll down to ...
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Get the blog page URL set in Options
As of WordPress 4.5 you can use:
get_post_type_archive_link( 'post' );
This handles the logic of getting the correct URL regardless of whether posts show up on the homepage or in a specified page.
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votes
Custom Post Type pages are "not found"
You don't have to edit your php code!
While you can do this in the function that registers your custom post type, like the other answers, you can also do this in the settings menu, thus avoiding ...
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votes
Changing permalinks gives me 404 errors on nginx
I'm using wordpress multisite with custom permalink setting: /%category%/%postname%/
/etc/nginx/site-available/domain.conf
On server{
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri$args;
}
...
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How to get URL of current page displayed?
You may use the below code to get the whole current URL in WordPress:
global $wp;
$current_url = home_url(add_query_arg(array(), $wp->request));
This will show the full path, including query ...
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Stop Wordpress appending `-2` to the end of my url after i change it
I know this topic is old, but I was having the same issue, and none of the suggested fixes worked.
I didn't have any pages still in trash. I didn't have a category with the same name as my page. I ...
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How does WordPress create URLs that Apache knows about?
Actually there is no communication happening between Apache and WordPress. The "magic" is happening in Apache mod_rewrite rules.
For a standard WordPress installation, you have the following rules in ...
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Get page permalink without wpurl
There's actually a core function for this now. wp_make_link_relative($url)
Convert full URL paths to relative paths.
Removes the http or https protocols and the domain. Keeps the path '/' at the ...
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Can I use REST-API on plain permalink format?
Yes you can. Just add the rest_route query parameter.
So
https://wordpress.org/wp-json/
would become
https://wordpress.org/?rest_route=/
Or https://wordpress.org/wp-json/wp/v2/ would become https://...
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How to get URL of current page displayed?
Why not just use?
get_permalink( get_the_ID() );
That is for single pages.
For category pages, use this:
get_category_link( get_query_var( 'cat' ) );
Simple script to get the current URL of any page:...
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Remove the blog slug from Wordpress Multisite root node
Step 1: Go to /wp-admin/network/site-info.php?id=1
Network Admin -> Sites -> Edit -> check Permalink Structure.
Edit as per your requirement.
Step 2: Go to normal site level
Settings -> ...
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How to get URL of current page displayed?
In my case, this code worked fine:
$current_url = home_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])
I hope it will help someone, I tried all answers but this one was helpful.
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What is the difference between get_permalink vs get_the_permalink?
Nothing.
get_permalink() is the original function, and is used to get the permalink URL for a post.
get_the_permalink() was introduced in 3.9 simply so the permalink function was consistent with the ...
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votes
How can I get the privacy policy page?
WordPress stores the page id for the privacy policy page in the options table. To get the value, you can use:
$privacy_policy_page = get_option( 'wp_page_for_privacy_policy' );
if( $...
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How can I get the privacy policy page?
These functions are available since 4.9.6 for the privacy policy url and link:
get_privacy_policy_url() - filterable with the privacy_policy_url filter.
get_the_privacy_policy_link() - filterable ...
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13
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Change media item permalink
Yes!
Go to your Media Library
Click the Image
Click the "Edit more details" link
If you cannot see a way to edit the permalink, click the "Screen Options" button at the top of the ...
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Get current URL (permalink) without /page/{pagenum}/
You can get the current URL through home_url( $wp->request ).
Try the example below:
global $wp;
// get current url with query string.
$current_url = home_url( $wp->request );
// get the ...
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Get current URL (permalink) without /page/{pagenum}/
Actually the easiest would be to use get_pagenum_link() which will return you the current URL without any /page/* paramaters.
Bonus
You can also simply use it to build "Previous" and "Next" links ...
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votes
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Search custom taxonomy term by name
// We get a list taxonomies on the search box
function get_tax_by_search($search_text){
$args = array(
'taxonomy' => array( 'my_tax' ), // taxonomy name
'orderby' => 'id',
...
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13
votes
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Page begins with number, WordPress adds 2
Within the wp_unique_post_slug function, checks are made to "Prevent new post slugs that could result in URLs that conflict with date archives." Here's the relevant code from line 3812 from wp-...
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Resolve a custom post type name vs. page permalink conflict (same slug)
I'm not high enough reputation to comment on @Carl's post, but his is the correct answer (at least to this situation of keeping the page slug and custom post type slug the same and not using an ...
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Changing permalinks gives me 404 errors on nginx
Had to add this piece of code to both the /sites-available/your-settings-file and /sites-enabled/your-settings-file:
server {
[...]
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
}
[...
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Disable Attachment Pages Completely
You can filter default rewrite rules and remove those for attachments:
function cleanup_default_rewrite_rules( $rules ) {
foreach ( $rules as $regex => $query ) {
if ( strpos( $regex, '...
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How to get URL of current page displayed?
The following code will give the current URL:
global $wp;
echo home_url($wp->request)
You can use the below code to get the full URL along with query parameters.
global $wp;
$current_url = ...
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votes
'publicly_queryable' => false not working as expected for custom post_type
If you want archives, but not singular view, then 'publicly_queryable' can't help you.
If you want that visiting a singular post send a 404... just do it.
You can hook 'template_redirect' and ...
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How to filter to output of the get_permalink() function
Note that post_link filter is only for the post post type.
For other post types these filters are available:
post_type_link for custom post types
page_link for page
attachment_link for attachment
...
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10
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Change media item permalink
In Media Library, I noticed that when media file is not Attached to a page the permalink is not editable. When they are attached, permalink editing is permitted.
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Get current URL (permalink) without /page/{pagenum}/
Answer by Govind Kumar worked, however, it only returned the URL if /page/{pagenum}/ was present in the URL and returned nothing if not. I needed a universal solution that will always return the base ...
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votes
Permalinks Question: Adding a prefix ONLY in front of the posts
1) Add this rewrite at the end of you function.php
function add_rewrite_rules( $wp_rewrite )
{
$new_rules = array(
'YOUR_PREFIX/(.+?)/?$' => 'index.php?post_type=post&name='. $...
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