wordpress question: calling in the_permalink in post content?

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Say I want a link within my content to link to

<?php the_permalink() ?>

before i know what my actual permalink is, say for template use. What is the proper way to link to the_permalink in my template? i tried a simple

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">

sort of thing, but it doesn't really work. Any tips?

[fris]

dont know why you want too, but you could create a shortcode to do it, or via a plugin.

http://justintadlock.com/archives/20...rdpress-plugin

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

I am working on a script which automates my content creation for certain projects. All the post data is written into an XML file for importing into wordpress after it's creation. In my post template I would like to link an image from the excerpt into the single.php version of the_content. If you follow?

[fris]

heres a few others to look at

http://justintadlock.com/archives/20...rdpress-plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rb-internal-links/

or some code to do it via your functions.php file

function print_link($atts, $content = null) {
        global $post;
        $permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
        return '<a href="'.$permalink.'">'.$content.'</a>';
}

add_shortcode('mypermalink','print_link');

then you would do

[mypermalink]title you want[/mypermalink]

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

dont know why you want too, but you could create a shortcode to do it, or via a plugin.

http://justintadlock.com/archives/20...rdpress-plugin

I just tried this one, and it works very well aside from the fact that the shortcodes do not function within "the_excerpt" and only work in "the_content". I'll look through the other couple options you've listed. Thanks Fris...

[fris]

you could probably modify it to work with excerpt as well, probably just 1 line of code to add the filter for excerpt as well as the_content

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

you could probably modify it to work with excerpt as well, probably just 1 line of code to add the filter for excerpt as well as the_content

Yup, added the following to my functions.php and the shortcodes now execute fine in the_excerpt with the Template Tag Shortcuts plugin...

add_filter('the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode');

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

from one headache to the next. now i'm having trouble gettign the_excerpt to import from my XML file. The post imports fine, but the excerpt is left hanging Don't suppose you got much experience with creating XMLs for import do ya fris?