What is the best way of linking to WordPress pages with PHP? Considering that I move the page from a local server to a live server to another URL?

<a href="/wordpress/services" title="Read More" class="yellowButton">Read more</a> 

How could you replace this code with PHP linking to the WordPress page.

/wordpress/services

What is the best way of linking to WordPress pages with PHP? Considering that I move the page from a local server to a live server to another URL?

<a href="/wordpress/services" title="Read More" class="yellowButton">Read more</a> 

How could you replace this code with PHP linking to the WordPress page.

/wordpress/services

• pages
• links

• I know it might seem like a silly question, But I would like to know what is the best solution for linking to pages, Do you link directly to a ID or a page name. I don't understand the WordPress Codex page. Could someone please give a PHP example of this. – Josh Commented May 3, 2012 at 9:18
• 1 What do you know about the page? Title? Page ID? Nothing? – Chip Bennett Commented May 3, 2012 at 13:27

4 Answers 4

Page Permalink from $id

If you know the Page $id, use get_permalink():

<?php $permalink = get_permalink( $id ); ?>

Page Permalink from $slug

If you know the Page $slug, such as /about (including hierarchy, such as /about/work), use get_page_by_path() to determine the Page $id, then use get_permalink().

<?php
$page_object = get_page_by_path( $slug );
$page_id = $page_object->ID;
$permalink = get_permalink( $page_id );
?>

Page Permalink from $title

If you know the Page $title, such as "Some Random Page Name", use get_page_by_title(), then use get_permalink():

<?php
$page_object = get_page_by_title( $title );
$page_id = $page_object->ID;
$permalink = get_permalink( $page_id );
?>

Do you want to find them by name? If yes then you can

<a href="<?php echo site_url('/services'); ?>"> Services </a>

If you want to hardcode '/page-names' you can use home_url('/wordpress/services') function with esc_url() for sanitizing URLs - it will always get you full url of home page ( local or live )

<a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/wordpress/services' ) ); ?>"
 title="Read More" class="yellowButton">
 Read more
</a> 

You can use a shortcode to insert the domain name into the internal link and then just add the page url on the end e.g [domain_name]/page-name.

Add this code into your child themes function.php and it's ready to go!

//add shortcode that displays current site name
function domain_name(){
$currentDomain = "yoursite";
return $currentDomain;
}

add_shortcode('domain_name', 'domain_name');

I've tested this on multiple live sites and it appears to be working perfectly.

Hope this is what you're looking for!