Question

My urls for posts in WordPress looks like this:
http://localhost:8888/blabla/book/yes-vi-testar

Using the_permalink() would generate “http://localhost:8888/blabla/book/yes-vi-testar” but I want to cut the first 34 characters to get a string like “yes-vi-testar”. How do I use php substr in a case like this? I’m confused… I tried

<?php
    $friendlypermalink = substr(the_permalink(), 34);
?>

but that doesnt do the trick.

Answer 1

Use get_the_permalink to get the permalink without echoing it

So

substr(get_the_permalink(), .............);

A lot of of the WordPress function have ‘return’ alternates using get as the operative word. IE: get_the_time, get_the_content, etc.

the_title is the only one I believe that doesn’t have this option. For the_title you have to pass two empty parameters (the before and after seperators) and either a true or false … not sure at the moment

the_title("","",true);