the_permalink little problem

  • Hello guys! I’ve been playing a bit with PHP and WP code to display a definite number of post from particular categories in index.php. And this is what I got so far:

    <?php $args = array(
	'cat' => 10,
	'posts_per_page' => 3
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
while($query->have_posts()):
	$query->next_post();
	$id = $query->post->ID;
	echo '<h2>';
	echo '<a href="'. the_permalink() .'">'. get_the_title($id) .'</a>';
	echo '</h2>';
	echo the_excerpt();
endwhile;
?>

    Everything seems to be working fine, except for a little detail related to the post title and it’s link to the full post. So this is what I got in return when the PHP is processed:

    <div id="noticia">
    <h2>https://www.url.com/post-slug<a href="?preview=1&template=la97&stylesheet=la97">Post Title</a></h2>A lot of text representing the excerpt<a href="https://www.url.com/post-slug?preview=1&template=la97&stylesheet=la97">[...]</a>
</div>

    As you can see, I cannot find the way to get the post link in the proper place. It’s being displayed outside of the link tags, so it generates a not-working link instead.

    Any ideas? :S

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  • Ok, I got it solved on my own! This is how it goes:

    <div id="noticia">
    <?php $args = array(
        'cat' => 10,
        'posts_per_page' => 3
    );
    $query = new WP_Query( $args );
        while($query->have_posts()):
            $query->next_post();
            $id = $query->post->ID;
            echo '<h2>';
            echo '<a href="'. get_permalink($id) .'">'. get_the_title($id) .'</a>';
            echo '</h2>';
            echo get_the_excerpt($id);
        endwhile;
    ?>

    I didn’t realize that “echo” and “the_permalink()” were both trying to print information. When I realized that I just replaced “the_permalink()” for “get_permalink($id)” (the $id between brackets is very important too), so it call the information leaving the printing part to “echo” ??

    Now I have another issue. “get_the_excerpt()” is getting the excerpt from the most recent article instead of using the current article :S

    Any ideas please?

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