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# dijon

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 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [first post different](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-post-different/)
 *  [dijon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dijon/)
 * (@dijon)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-post-different/#post-706144)
 * I found this post through a search and it has the answer I was looking for… Thanks
   blueyez!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [adding anchor tag to the_permalink()](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-anchor-tag-to-the_permalink/)
 *  [dijon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dijon/)
 * (@dijon)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-anchor-tag-to-the_permalink/#post-621625)
 * Great post. I have a follow-up question: What if I want to populate a variable
   with the permalink? If I call the_permalink();, then I automatically get an echo…
   which I don’t want. Here is what I’m trying to do (unsuccessfully):
 *     ```
       $podPressContent .= '<a href="';
       $podPressContent .= the_permalink();
       $podPressContent .= '" title="Entire Post">Entire Post</a>';
       ```
   
 * Thanks for your help!
    John

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