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Wordpress - How to get URL of current page displayed?
(@hans)
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Joined: 10 years ago
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Topic starter
October 18, 2022 10:41 AM
I've found this one surprisingly unreliable when going through all the available methods.
I'll start with the one that worked reliably for my website:
$current_url = home_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
Now some will complain about using the "REQUEST_URI" option, so here some alternatives that proved to be not always reliable, depending on your circumstances.
// Option 1
// requires $wp, may not work with permalinks set to plain
global $wp;
$current_url = home_url( $wp->request );
// Option 2
// requires $wp, may not work with permalinks set to plain
global $wp;
$current_url = add_query_arg( $wp->query_vars, home_url( $wp->request ) );
// Some other options that may be helpful:
$current_url = get_permalink( get_the_ID() ); // for page
$current_url = get_category_link( get_query_var( 'cat' ) ); // for category
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