How can I retrieve the current URL (whether homepage, archive, post type archive, category archive, etc) but always without the /page/{pagenum}/ part if it's present? So, if the real URL is:

example/category/uncategorized/

OR

example/category/uncategorized/page/2/

then the return value will always be

example/category/uncategorized/

How can I retrieve the current URL (whether homepage, archive, post type archive, category archive, etc) but always without the /page/{pagenum}/ part if it's present? So, if the real URL is:

example.com/category/uncategorized/

OR

example.com/category/uncategorized/page/2/

then the return value will always be

example.com/category/uncategorized/

• permalinks
• pagination
• urls

8 Answers 8

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 position where '/page.. ' text start.
$pos = strpos($current_url , '/page');

// remove string from the specific postion
$finalurl = substr($current_url,0,$pos);


echo $finalurl;

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 dynamically using the 'paged' query variable:

// Get the current page number.
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

$first_page = '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link() . '" class="page-first"><<</a>';
$prev_page = '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link($paged - 1) . '" class="page-prev"><</a>';
$next_page = '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link($paged + 1) . ' class="page-next">></a>';

// And having a `WP_Query` object you can also build the link for the last page:
$max = $the_query->max_num_pages;
$last_page = '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link($max) . '" class="page-last">>></a>';

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 URL without pagination, so I modified Govind's code a bit and wrapped into a function:

function get_nopaging_url() {

    global $wp;

    $current_url =  home_url( $wp->request );
    $position = strpos( $current_url , '/page' );
    $nopaging_url = ( $position ) ? substr( $current_url, 0, $position ) : $current_url;

    return trailingslashit( $nopaging_url );

}

echo get_nopaging_url();

Now, it always returns correct URL.

(This is useful if you need to implement some kind of post filters that add a param to filter posts by, let's say, a meta filed. So, even if a user sets the filter param on page X, the new filtered results will always start from the base URL, not page X and throwing 404 if there's less filtered posts.)

My specifics were very similar to Ihor Vorotnov's, exept that I had more than one parameter. So, starting from his answer, I modified the code to use a regular expression:

function get_nopaging_url() {
    $current_url =  $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI];

    $pattern = '/page\\/[0-9]+\\//i';
    $nopaging_url = preg_replace($pattern, '', $current_url);

    return  $nopaging_url;
}

If you want to remove all possible pagination combinations then use this snippet:

// remove pagination from url
$pattern = '/page(\/)*([0-9\/])*/i';
$url = preg_replace($pattern, '', $GLOBALS['wp']->request);

It will take care of

/page
/page/
/page/1
/page/1/
...

and is case insensitive, works for any pagination page number and also will remove any combination of trailing number/number/number... (tests here: https://regex101.com/r/9fQaLC/1)

If you want to get the full url with leading http(s) just add

$url = home_url($url);

In that line you can also add any custom GET parameter like so

$url = home_url($url . '?typ=test');

function getCurrentUrlSeo() {
    global $wp;
    $current_url = home_url($wp->request);
    $pos = mb_strpos($current_url, '/page');
    $finalurl = $pos ? substr($current_url, 0, $pos) : $current_url;
    return $finalurl.'/';
}

While this question was already answered here (not accepted), this snippet should do the trick: home_url(add_query_arg(NULL, NULL));.

trait TraitURLStrip {

    /**
     * Strips off paging and query string. Returns a filter-the-results friendly URL
     *
     * @param bool   $str_url
     * @param string $str_page
     *
     * @return bool|string
     */
    protected function urlStrip( $str_url = false , $str_page = 'page' ){

        if ( is_string( $str_url) ) {

            $arr_parse_url = wp_parse_url( $str_url );

            $str_path_no_page = '';
            if ( isset( $arr_parse_url['path'] ) ) {

                // if we're paging then remove that. please!
                $str_path_no_page = preg_replace( "/\/{$str_page}\/[0-9]*\/$/", "/", $arr_parse_url['path'] );

            }

            $str_scheme_host = "{$arr_parse_url['scheme']}://{$arr_parse_url['host']}";

            return $str_scheme_host . $str_path_no_page;
        }
        return false;
    }
}