Comments on: WordPress: Get Page Link By Slug

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:15:58 +0000

Thanks! I have matching category and page names on my site. I needed to find a page link based on the category name. This helped me get there.
$c_name = $childcat->cat_name; $page_link = get_permalink(get_page_by_title($c_name));

By: Ian Dunn

Ian Dunn — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:02:14 +0000

get_permalink() can accept a post object in addition to an integer ID, so you can just do something like

get_permalink( get_page_by_title( ‘Monthly Events’ ) )

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:33:26 +0000

True, i was looking for this to solve a problem, works good for main pages but not for child pages. If anyone has a clue on how making it work for child pages it’d be awesome.

By: Diaan Mynhardt

Diaan Mynhardt — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:59:04 +0000

True. At the time this was not one of my requirements. I might look in to a solution at some stage.

By: Gideon

Gideon — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:22:50 +0000

One problem with the above solution is that when the page you are looking for is a child page the above mentioned solution will not work.

By: Diaan Mynhardt

Diaan Mynhardt — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:19:12 +0000

Glad to have been able to help. I’ve also wondered why something so simple (and obviously useful) hasn’t been included in core.

By: clooney

clooney — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:12:50 +0000

Awesome! Works perfectly. Thank you very much. Its strange that such a function is not part of the WordPress API.

By: Hassan

Hassan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:46:31 +0000

Thanks, It worked on my website. It will be soon online.

By: emonweb

emonweb — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:46:00 +0000

you know im thinking the same way as you? i would like to keep my wordpress theme id less.

By: Diaan Mynhardt

Diaan Mynhardt — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:27:46 +0000

I’m glad this helped.

Yeah, I totally think this should make it to the core. Oh well. *shrug*