24
Aug
I’m big on WordPress, in fact, I’m using it for this site and most of the other sites that I’ve coded. Recently (when working on this blog) I decided that I wanted to generate the URL of the current page so that I could submit that specific page to social media sites, not just the root URL. I search everywhere but couldn’t find the solution that I was looking for and then it hit me.
If you want to dynamically generate the URL of the page/post that you are currently viewing then all you need to enter is:
This code generates and displays the current URL, which is great for submitting articles to Digg, Facebook, Twitter etc. etc.
What a big sigh of relief it was when I found that. The funny thing is that it’s been staring me in the face all along.
Below is a list of a number of variables used to generate various URLs using WordPress. The variable is on the left and the result is on the right.
admin_email = admin@example atom_url = http://example/home/feed/atom charset = UTF-8 comments_atom_url = http://example/home/comments/feed/atom comments_rss2_url = http://example/home/comments/feed description = Just another WordPress blog home = http://example/home html_type = text/html language = en-US name = Testpilot pingback_url = http://example/home/wp/xmlrpc.php rdf_url = http://example/home/feed/rdf rss2_url = http://example/home/feed rss_url = http://example/home/feed/rss siteurl = http://example/home stylesheet_directory = http://example/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo stylesheet_url = http://example/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo/style.css template_directory = http://example/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo template_url = http://example/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo text_direction = ltr url = http://example/home version = 2.7 wpurl = http://example/home/wp
You can easily display this information by substituting the variable in the following code for the desired URL:
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