Comments on: Automatically generate your blog URL in WordPress posts

By: Nathan Sudds

Nathan Sudds — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:52:21 +0000

Maybe it was easier than I expected, there were a few references to siteurl in the plugin code — just wondering if I need to change more than one. I changed the one in the first line: $blogurl_settings['siteurl'] = get_option('siteurl');

$blogurl_settings['siteurl'] = get_option('home');

That works for the [blogurl] do I need to change anything for uploads?

By: Nathan Sudds

Nathan Sudds — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:45:41 +0000

Hi Peter,

Great plugin — have you made any progress with updating the plugin to support using this with Wordpress in a subdirectory as mentioned by Mario above?

If it would be possible to provide more details on what to edit in the plugin code that would be great — I think your plugin has some great potential for people who install Wordpress in subdirectory for development and then use the Move your wordpress directory steps (http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory ) to make it live at the root url of the site. This keeps any hardcoded links from being broken when the permalink structure changes for launch

Thanks again

Nathan

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:27:24 +0000

Peter, can you supply me with the code I would be able to use for your plugin to insert a short code for the post title?

Thanks,
Eric

Reply from Peter: The example two posts above should give you enough of a framework. You have to search the WordPress documentation to see how to access the post title generally. Due to the number of requests that I get, the volunteer time I can dedicate is limited.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:51:50 +0000

Unbelievable! A free plugin and you help me hack it for free. You are extraordinary, Sir!

By: Don

Don — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:14:32 +0000

How would I add a token for [admin_email]?
I tried but failed to hack it. I looks like any option for 'get_bloginfo' should work…I'm not good enough to figure it out I guess…any help? I'd like to just add this to what is there already…this plugin is so cool!

Reply from Peter: It would look something like:

function adminEmailFunc() {
return get_bloginfo( ‘admin_email’ );
}

add_shortcode(‘admin_email’, ‘adminEmailFunc’);

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:21:19 +0000

Is there a way to get this to work in custom fields?

Reply from Peter: There may be a way to parse custom fields the same way as post / page bodies, but off the top of my head I do not know how.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:30:56 +0000

I desperately want this plugin to work, but I'm having some issues with it. I'm running WP 2.7.1 with this plugin installed, yet everytime I try to use the shortcode, it doesn't convert the tag to the URL.. I just see "[blogurl]" in the middle of my page. Does the plugin definitely work with 2.7.1, and I'm just doing something stupid?

Reply from Peter: Yes, it is confirmed to be working with 2.7.1 with and without the visual editor enabled. Perhaps there is a conflicting plugin or somehow it isn’t actually activated?

By: Austin @ NicheWeapons

Austin @ NicheWeapons — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:01:29 +0000

Brilliant, thank you Peter – was just looking into shortcodes to do exactly this

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:34:33 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out, Mario. I'll add that for a future release. In the meantime, if anybody needs that URL distinction, you can follow the code in my plugin and use get_option('home') for that value instead of get_option('siteurl').

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:58:35 +0000

Your plug-in returns the WordPress URL and not the blog URL. I have WordPress in a subfolder called WordPress. My blog url is http://site.com and my WordPress URL is http://site.com/wordpress. The latter is what your plug-in returns. For an update, it would be nice, if [blogurl] would return what I have entered under "Blog Address (URL)" in the settings. Otherwise it is rather irritating. Another [wordpressurl] tag would then be nice in addition to [blogurl].