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1. tapkid113
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Hello,

   I'm in the middle of editing the WP Nivo Slider plugin (the free one) to customize the title. I am having the following problem, though:
   I want to link the title that is inside of $thumb_attr array, but I can't seem to figure it out. :/ I don't know much about PHP, so I am fumbling my way through this.

   The code for the plugin is as follows:

   <div id="slider">
   <?php
   	$category = get_option('wpns_category');
   	$n_slices = get_option('wpns_slices');
   ?>
   <?php query_posts( 'cat='.$category.'&posts_per_page='.$n_slices.'' ); if( have_posts() ) : while( 
   
   have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   	<?php if(has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
   	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
   		<?php $thumb_attr = array(
   				'title' => '<h3>' . '<a href="THIS IS WHERE LINK SHOULD GO">' . get_the_title() . '</a>' . '</h3>' . '<h4>' . get_the_excerpt() . '</h4>'
   		); ?>
   		<?php the_post_thumbnail('featured-thumbnail', $thumb_attr );  ?>
   </a>
   	<?php endif ?>
   	<?php endwhile; endif;?>
   	<?php wp_reset_query();?>
   </div>

2. tapkid113
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I should have mentioned this above, but using <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"> didn't work. I figured that was because the code is already inside of a <?php ?> tag, though.

3. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 10 months ago #

   instead the_permalink() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_permalink

   you would need to use get_permalink()
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink
   to use the permalink in a string;

   example:
   

   <?php $thumb_attr = array(
   				'title' => '<h3>' . '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a>' . '</h3>' . '<h4>' . get_the_excerpt() . '</h4>'
   		); ?>

   in wordpress, for functions starting with the_ ,there are often equivalent functions to return a string, starting with get_ or get_the_ .

4. tapkid113
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   That worked perfect!

   Thank you so much!!!!! :D

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