setting link based on page title

Use <?php the_permalink(); ?> instead of <?php the_title(); ?>

Related:
Template_Tags/the_permalink

xsux2bmex,

The permalinks for each post should be adding a dash between each of the title’s words. Like below:

Title: Hello World
Permalink: hello-world

Check the permalinks under each post title on the edit post page.

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A little late on this post, nice catch though. I had permalinks on my mind at least.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, but I probably didn’t explain myself as well as I should have.
Each department in the school has their own information page: ie. https://mywebsite.com/departments/business/, …/departments/social-science, etc.
On each of these pages I want to put a link to each department’s blog entries (found on the front page) via their author name (unless there’s a better way to do this).
So the link I’ve used to do this (https://mywebsite.com/author/<?php the_title(); ?> which steals the title off each department page. This works fine except where the department name is 2 words ie. Social Science where I get: https://mywebsite.com/author/Social Science – which of course comes up as a 404 error since the author username for Social Science is: socialscience.
I’m wondering if there is a way to strip the space out of the $the_title tag or if there is another way to accomplish what I need.

Using $the_permalink tag as suggested simply gives me the link to the current page, which doesn’t help me.

Then Template_Tags/get_permalink using a post ID.

But I want all blogs by the author for each department.

Okay not understanding so hopefully someone else can jump in with a solution.

xsux2bmex,

Okay, after reading it a few times I see what you’re asking for and why. Using <?php the_permalink(); ?> will give you a result such as:

https://mywebsite.com/author/https://mywebsite.com/article-title

I haven’t tested this but give the following a try – courtesy of Jason Boyle:

<?php $title = get_the_title(); ?>
<a href="https://mywebsite.com/author/post?url=<?php echo $title; ?>&<?php echo str_replace(" ", "%20", $title); ?>">
<?php echo $title; ?></a>

See more here: https://wpcult.com/remove-spaces-when-echoing-the_title/

Thank you very much doc4!!
Being new-ish to php I didn’t know how to put it all together. The code you gave me above didn’t suit my needs, but definitely got me on the right track.
Here’s the code I used to get what I needed:

<?php $title = get_the_title();
$newtitle = str_replace(' ', '', $title); ?>

                 <h1><?php the_title(); ?><span><?php edit_post_link('Edit Page', '[ ', ' ]'); ?></span>
                 <div class="alignright"><a href="https://mywebsite.com/author/<?php echo $newtitle ?>" title="Read Blog Entries"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/read_blog.gif" alt="Read Blog Entries" /></a></div></h1>

It may not be pretty, but it works. So thank you to all who tried to help me get this solved.