Question

I have been trying to use the answer at How to change the href for a hyperlink using jQuery to modify a WordPress permalink, however I am not having much luck and need assistance.

I am trying to modify the WordPress Permalink on one Hyperlink, across all pages on the site.

<a id="language" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">German</a>

Lets say the permalink is http://www.wordpress-site.com/about-us/

I want to modify it, using jQuery to read http://www.wordpress-site.com/ger/about-us/

What would my jQuery code need to be in order to accomplish this? It needs to work dynamically, across all pages on the site, identifying http://www.wordpress-site.com/whatever/ in the a#language on all pages, and replacing it with http://www.wordpress-site.com/ger/whatever

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

​$(document).ready(function() {
   $('a#language').attr('href', function() {
      return this.href.replace(/^(http:\/\/www\.wordpress-site\.com)(.*)/, "$1/ger$2");
   });
});​​​

I don´t know your setup but is it really necessary to change the URL on the client side? IMHO this kind of URL rewriting is typically a task for the server.