Title: get_permalink not rendering correctly Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # get_permalink not rendering correctly * [Justin Cline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryugraphix/) * (@ryugraphix) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/) * I’m using a custom post type of “story” and pulling a random one to the home page (front-page.php). * My WP_Query() is pulling all the other information correctly except for get_permalink(). This is just printing “[http://domain.com/story/%story%/”](http://domain.com/story/%story%/”); instead of say “[http://domain.com/story/vanna-white/”](http://domain.com/story/vanna-white/”);. * Strangely it IS displaying properly in the admin on the actual post. I can click“ View Story” next to it and display the page correctly. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [BeardedGinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshlimecuda/) * (@joshlimecuda) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/#post-4353256) * Hey Justin, * Does it give you the same output if you switch to using “the_permalink()” approach? * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_permalink](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_permalink) * Thread Starter [Justin Cline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryugraphix/) * (@ryugraphix) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/#post-4353259) * Thanks for the reply! It does… prints exactly the same issue * [BeardedGinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshlimecuda/) * (@joshlimecuda) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/#post-4353260) * Could you share the code you’re using to display the content on Front Page as well as the code used to create the custom post type? * Thread Starter [Justin Cline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryugraphix/) * (@ryugraphix) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/#post-4353263) * Custom post creation: * ``` /** * Custom Post Type: Stories * */ add_action('init', 'rr_story_register', 0); // Register custom post type function rr_story_register() { $labels = array( 'name' => _x('Client Stories', 'post type general name'), 'singular_name' => _x('Story', 'post type singular name'), 'all_items' => 'All Stories', 'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'story'), 'add_new_item' => __('Add New Story'), 'edit_item' => __('Edit Story'), 'new_item' => __('New Story'), 'view_item' => __('View Story'), 'search_items' => __('Search Stories'), 'not_found' => __('Nothing found'), 'not_found_in_trash' => __('Nothing found in Trash'), 'parent_item_colon' => '' ); $args = array( 'labels' => $labels, 'public' => true, 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'exclude_from_search' => false, 'show_ui' => true, 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => array( "slug" => "story"), 'capability_type' => 'post', 'hierarchical' => false, 'menu_position' => 9, 'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'revisions') ); register_post_type( 'story' , $args ); //flush_rewrite_rules( ); } ``` * and the Front Page display: * ``` if ( ! function_exists( 'display_random_story_post' ) ) : /** * Displays latest blog post on the home page. * First post will show excerpt/phone, rest will just be a list. * * @return null */ function display_random_story_post() { // Setup the Query $args = array ( 'post_type' => 'story', 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'orderby' => 'rand' ); $rand_story = new WP_Query( $args ); // Setup var $display = null; //foreach ( $rand_story as $story ) : setup_postdata( $story ); if($rand_story->have_posts()) : while($rand_story->have_posts()) : $rand_story->the_post(); $client_name = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'rr_story_name', true); $client_location = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'rr_story_location', true); $page_headline = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'rr_story_headline', true); $use_alt_headline = 1; if ($page_headline == '') { $use_alt_headline = 0; $page_headline = get_the_title(); } $display = '
' . "\r\n"; $display .= '
' . "\r\n"; $display .= '

' .$page_headline. '

' . "\r\n"; if( $use_alt_headline == 1 && $client_location !== '') { $display .= '

' .$client_name. ', ' .$client_location. '

'; } elseif( $use_alt_headline == 1 ) { $display .= '

' .$client_name. '

'; } else { $display .= '

' .$client_location. '

'; } $display .= '
' . "\r\n"; $display .= return_excerpt(280); $display .= '
' . "\r\n"; endwhile; // End post display loop else: // If there are no posts, say so $display .= '

We're sorry, there are no stories to display.

'; endif; // End loop to get blog posts echo $display; wp_reset_postdata(); } // END display_random_story_post() endif; ``` * [BeardedGinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshlimecuda/) * (@joshlimecuda) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/#post-4353365) * What happens when you change the query to pull `'post_type' => 'post'` or `'post_type' => 'page'`? Does it still cause the same url issue? * Thread Starter [Justin Cline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryugraphix/) * (@ryugraphix) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/#post-4353366) * Hmm, looks like those pull correctly. Out of curiosity I changed to one of the two other custom post types I’m using… the “events” one worked ok, but not another using the basic method of custom post permalinks. * The one that’s working is “Events” and it set to rewrite => false, but then I have a custom function I’d found someplace, that’s making it use ID. I’m guessing this is disrupting the rest of the custom posts’ rewriting… * ``` add_action('init', 'rr_event_rewrite'); function rr_event_rewrite() { global $wp_rewrite; $queryarg = 'post_type=event&p='; $wp_rewrite->add_rewrite_tag('%event_id%', '([^/]+)',$queryarg); $wp_rewrite->add_permastruct('event', '/event/%event_id%', false); //$wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); } add_filter('post_type_link', 'rr_event_permalink', 1, 3); function rr_event_permalink($post_link, $id = 0, $leavename) { global $wp_rewrite; $post = get_post($id); if ( is_wp_error( $post ) ) return $post; $newlink = $wp_rewrite->get_extra_permastruct($post->post_type); $newlink = str_replace('%'.$post->post_type.'_id%', $post->ID, $newlink); $newlink = home_url(user_trailingslashit($newlink)); return $newlink; } ``` * Don’t know enough about $wp_rewrite to trouble shoot, but I’m guessing it doesn’t play well with others. * Thanks so much for all the help up to this point, I really appreciate it! * Thread Starter [Justin Cline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryugraphix/) * (@ryugraphix) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/#post-4353394) * I’m just bailing and using a plugin * ([http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-permastructure](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-permastructure)) * Working now well enough now, thanks though! Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘get_permalink not rendering correctly’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [custom post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-post/) * [get_permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/get_permalink/) * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Justin Cline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryugraphix/) * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_permalink-not-rendering-correctly/#post-4353394) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics