Some days ago, rebellion, one of WpRecipes readers, asked me how to access post data outside of the WordPress loop. I have provided a solution to him, however it wasn’t possible to get a permalink outside of the loop. Here’s how to do it easily.
To get a permalink outside of the loop, you have to use the get_permalink() function. That function takes a single argument, which is the ID of the post you'd like to get the permalink:
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(10); ?>" >Read the article</a>
You can also use this function with the $post global variable:
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID); ?>" >Read the article</a>
Thanks to Julien Chauvin for the tip!
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Thanks for the tip! How do you get the permalink on non-singular pages (i.e. tags, categories, archives, blog etc.)? If you can add this info to this tip, it would make it complete. Thanks!
Hello guys,
How to get page/post permalink in the head?
( i wanna place some conditionals to add canonical tag so i need to get the pages permalinks in the head – so outside the loop too ).
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