Something like:
<div class="date"><a href="link_url_goes here"><?php the_date('l - F jS', '<h2>', '</h2>'); ?></a></div>
should work. Then style it using CSS – not old HTML 4 markup.
Thanks for the quick response!
I apologize, I didn’t explain myself clearly enough. In the a href I would like to have part of the link be a php function. So, for example, I would like www.myquestion.com/<?php the_date?> so that it will bring up something likewww.myquestion.com/2012/04/03.
<div class="date"><h2><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>"><?php the_date('l - F jS'); ?></a></h2></div>
My page breaks when I try to insert a link with a php function in it into the loop.
Thank you so much for your help. I’ll try to give you another example:
Lets say I have this text “My Title”. And I want the link to my title to link to the day that the post was made. Following the calendar widget setup, I would need to have my link be: http://www.thenameofmypage.com/year/month/day/
Therefore, “>My Title…but that doesn’t work so I’m not sure what to do.
Please post code or markup snippets between backticks or use the code button.
Sorry about that,
<a href="www.thenameofmypage.com/<?php the_date('Y/m/d/'); ?>"><My Title></a>
That’s not the code I suggested above…
Yes, yes I tried the code suggested and my page broke…I don’t know why.
There’s obviously nothing wrong with the code I posted above. Perhaps you added it incorrectly?
When you say home_url do you suggest that I put in www.thenameofmypage.com/<?php the_date('Y/m/d/'); ?> as my home_url. I guess I just don’t understand at what point in your code the current date shows up. Does this ( '/' ) bring up the date?
When you say home_url do you suggest that I put in http://www.thenameofmypage.com/<?php the_date(‘Y/m/d/’); ?> as my home_url.
No. Just use <?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>">
Ok. It seems I might have copied it wrong the first time. Now, it doesn’t break, but the link that shows up is a link to the home page and not a link to the home page with /Y/m/d/ at the end. If I am not explaining myself well enough, then I won’t take up any more of your time, but thank you for your help so far.
