Generic link to post itself

A lot depends on where you want the link. If it is in The Loop, or if you have the post ID, you could write a function to return the permalink of the post, either in a shortcode, or in a template.

Please explain more about what you want to do, preferably with an example.

It is in the loop.

I’m using excel to create posts in a specific template.

So I would like to have the image linked to the post without needing to copy the post url after I published the post.

So for example I have a post Nice day.
So I just type in a column of excel Nice day and then Excel produces in another column something like this:

<img class=”alignleft” src=”https://www.mywebsite.com/content/uploads/sun.jpg&#8221; title=”nice day” alt=”nice day” />

So then I just replace the image url and at the moment I need to copy also the post url.

I can’t be sure, but I think you could use a shortcode.

It has been a LONG time since I worked with Excel macros, so bear with me. I assume that you can separate 2 comma separated values in a cell into the 2 parts.

What I am suggesting is that you put the comma separated values for the title/alt and the relative path to the image, something like this, in the Excel column: Nice Day,sun.jpg

Excel would generate: [post_img img=”sun.jpg” alt=”nice day”]

Then you would code a function (in functions.php) to process the post_img shortcode and return this:

<a href="https://mysite.com/this-page" title="nice day"><img class="alignleft" src="https://mysite.com/content/uploads/sun.jpg" alt="nice day" title="nice day"></a>

The href can be obtained using the get_permalink() function.

The uploads path can be obtained using the wp_upload_dir() function.

Here is a Codex article on using shortcodes:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Shortcode_API

I need to study this, but it looks promising.

Thanks for the help.

Hi,
I’m trying to grasp how it works.

I tried this to return only the permalink via a shortcode but get an error:
//[permalink]
function permalink_funct( $atts ){
return get_permalink();
}
add_shortcode( ‘permalink, ‘permalink_func’ );

If you could give me a hint.

If you posted the actual code you used, it looks like there is a missing quote in this line:

add_shortcode( 'permalink, 'permalink_func' );

It should be this:

add_shortcode( 'permalink', 'permalink_func' );

Hi,
Thanks but didn’t work. I found this code here.

When I use the shortcode without id it returns the permalink from the current post. So I use[permalink] with the following code:

function permalink_thingy($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		'id' => 1,
		'text' => ""  // default value if none supplied
    ), $atts));

    if ($text) {
        $url = get_permalink($id);
        return "<a href='$url'>$text</a>";
    } else {
	   return get_permalink($id);
	}
}
add_shortcode('permalink', 'permalink_thingy');

Hi,
I noticed that if I show it on a category page the permalink shown by the shortcode is the category page url instead of the post url.

How can I get the post url when displayed on a category page?