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1. sjthomas
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm writing a theme and an trying to generate a link to a generic archives page (i.e. archives.php). By default this is http://www.example.com/archives/ when you have pretty links enabled.

   The problem being that a user can change this URL under permalink options. So how do I get that value to dynamically generate a link to the archives page should a user decide to change that permalink option? Obviously, if a user has chosen to change the URL at which archives can be accessed I want the theme to respect that.

   Any ideas? I'm coming up blank, as are searches.

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Why not use the template tag, wp_get_archives()?

3. sjthomas
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Because that displays a list of dates. The setup I have is I'm using a home.php template file for the homepage. This doesn't contain a typical list of posts. Hence I want to provide a link to a page listing posts, newest first, from every category.

   I know, based on the template hierarchy, that I can use either archive.php or index.php to do this, but I'm struggling to dynamically generate a link to this page based on the user specified pretty link option.

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