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1. YOTS
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is there any way to grab ONLY the URLs of the previous and next? The next_posts_link tag generates a button with it, I just need to grab the URL dynamically. This code also need to be in the headers so it would have to work outside the loop.

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Many WordPress 'template functions' also have a corresponding 'get_' so in this case get_next_posts_link.

   See the line number 1113 area of wp-includes/link-template.php in version 2.7.1

3. YOTS
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks but it doesn't seem to be working. Here is the code so you get an idea of what I'm trying to do.

   <link href="<?php get_next_posts_link(); ?>" id="arr-nav-right-link" />

   I want the link to the next posts populate the href. Is this possible?

   When I check the HTML source the href is empty. No link.

   <link href="" id="arr-nav-right-link" />

4. YOTS
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I tried doing:

   <?php echo get_next_posts_link(); ?>

   But it returns the entire link with an . All I need is the URL.

5. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Look at the code in wp-includes/link-template.php looks like it eventually uses next_posts( $max_page, false ) at line 1099

6. YOTS
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Michael thanks! That worked! Why isn't this documented on the Template Tags page?

7. YOTS
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Michael, this works for generating the pages urls, but on the a single post page it doesn't generate a url for the next post. Is there a separate function for that?

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