This question already has answers here: Get page permalink without wpurl (5 answers) Closed 8 years ago.

This is the code I am using:

<?php echo str_replace( home_url(), '', get_permalink($post->ID) ); ?>

What it does is output the permalink as a relative URL i.e. only the slug. For instance, if the permalink is /, the relative URL output by the code would look like /2012/01/post-title/.

Problem: All Posts and Pages show the right permalink, which is great. But all other pages (including Home, Search and Archives) show the relative URL of the first post and not that of the respective pages. Any idea why? What am I doing wrong here?

Reference: Get page permalink without wpurl

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EDIT: Here's what else I've tried:

In functions.php

function get_relative_permalink( $url ) {
    $url = get_permalink();
    return str_replace( home_url(), "", $url );
}

In header.php

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-IN" href="/<?php echo get_relative_permalink(); ?>" />

Same problem with this as well. But this one shows a not-so-informative error too.

This question already has answers here: Get page permalink without wpurl (5 answers) Closed 8 years ago.

This is the code I am using:

<?php echo str_replace( home_url(), '', get_permalink($post->ID) ); ?>

What it does is output the permalink as a relative URL i.e. only the slug. For instance, if the permalink is http://example/2012/01/post-title/, the relative URL output by the code would look like /2012/01/post-title/.

Problem: All Posts and Pages show the right permalink, which is great. But all other pages (including Home, Search and Archives) show the relative URL of the first post and not that of the respective pages. Any idea why? What am I doing wrong here?

Reference: Get page permalink without wpurl

---

EDIT: Here's what else I've tried:

In functions.php

function get_relative_permalink( $url ) {
    $url = get_permalink();
    return str_replace( home_url(), "", $url );
}

In header.php

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-IN" href="http://in.example/<?php echo get_relative_permalink(); ?>" />

Same problem with this as well. But this one shows a not-so-informative error too.

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• Where exactly are you trying this code....?? Are you using global $post before your above code? – Joshua Abenazer Commented Aug 28, 2012 at 13:31
• @JoshuaAbenazer I am using the code as it is in my header.php file — looks like that's the wrong way of doing it. I will edit my question to reflect whatelse I've tried, so that you can help me better. – its_me Commented Aug 28, 2012 at 13:35
• 2 Can I ask why you'd want this? – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Aug 28, 2012 at 13:37
• 1 @TomJNowell Hey. I need to use a different domain for this markup: <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-IN" href="http://in.example/2012/01/post-title/" /> — but the actual permalink is like this: http://example/2012/01/post-title/. (Reading this will give you a better idea of what I am doing.) – its_me Commented Aug 28, 2012 at 13:41
• If you want to go the WP way, you must realize get_permalink() is for getting instances of class WP_Post links (posts, pages, custom post types, ... )... for archives, tags, etc - just categories in general - instances of class WP_Term - it is get_term_link(), for home it is home_url() – jave.web Commented Mar 18, 2018 at 19:49

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Use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] instead of get_permalink() to grab the current URL. get_permalink will give you the full address of the current post, not the address of the URL visited.

e.g. for example/test/page echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; prints /test/page

Note that this doesn't include the hashtag, as that part never gets sent to the server, and it also doesn't include ?foo=bar type parameters, those are in the $_GET array.

I use

str_replace(home_url(), '', get_permalink()); 

If site root is not /

This works for me:

function force_relative_url ($url)
{
    return preg_replace ('/^(http)?s?:?\/\/[^\/]*(\/?.*)$/i', '$2', '' . $url);
}

To use it on a permalink:

$relative_permalink = force_relative_url (get_permalink ($post->ID));