Comments on: Easy Shortcode Permalinks

By: Keri Allred

Keri Allred — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:46:57 +0000

Thanks for explaining the difference between codes and your examples. Very informative.

By: ellejohara

ellejohara — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:32:26 +0000

This is a brilliant little piece of code. Thanks for sharing!

By: nico

nico — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:32:38 +0000

By request i mean a query, so if this function make a query for each link, it an lead soon to a large number of queries. did you try to test it with $wpdb->num_queries ?

By: Trozdol

Trozdol — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:12:25 +0000

Is there a solution to a similar problem with images and/or called in files? Right now I’m working on a theme (in a test location on a sub directory) and I want to be able to link in my header to a .js file without needing to go back and change that. I’m having the same prob with ‘s too.

I hope this question wasn’t too far off topic.

By: Daniel Groves

Daniel Groves — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:06:04 +0000

Thats a cool idea, I like that.

By: TeMC

TeMC — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:02:43 +0000

I could be terribly wrong, but I’m pretty sure it’s not any SQL request at all.

But it depends on what you mean by a “SQL request”, basicly every page you view, any action you do whatshowever in WordPress grabs content of some database.

This thing simply checks the table of all posts, finds that id, and then outputs the URL the way you have permalinks set up.

So whenever the page-slug changes, or whenever you change permalink structure for whatever reason, your links will stay functional :)

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:06:39 +0000

The functions.php file in your theme should be the best place for this.

By: nico

nico — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:06:07 +0000

Does it mean an SQL request by link ?

By: Fredrik SÃ¸gaard

Fredrik SÃ¸gaard — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:39:32 +0000

This may be a dumb question, but where do I write the php code?

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:31:29 +0000

It's best practice to wrap the $url in esc_attr(), like so: return "$text";