Linking back to home page in wordpress

Question

So I have WordPress installed in a subdirectory of my website with permalinks set up.

I have my website set up like so:

-index.php
-style.css
-/contact
---index.php
-/blog
---(Wordpress installation)

So my problem is, whenever I use an <a href="../">Home</a> to link back to my homepage, it only works from my main blog page. If I go to a permalink post it takes me back to the blog home.

What I'm wondering is, is there a way to link back to the main page on both my blog home, and a permalink post? If i use ../../ it works on the post, but not the blog home.

I hope I worded this clearly enough, if I missed anything please let me know. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.

score 28 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '12 at 04:08

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<a href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>">Home</a>

See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/home_url

answered Oct 15 '12 at 04:08

coderabbi

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That only words if you want to only go home though right? Say you wanted to go ../, then forward to contact, that wouldn't work right? – Sidetracking Oct 15 '12 at 11:29
Sure it would - simply concatenate, like this: ">Contact – coderabbi Oct 15 '12 at 11:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '12 at 04:06

You can use the home_url function: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/home_url

I also recommend checking out the WordPress Function reference, and use the appropriate built in functions rather than inventing your own.

Edit: Not sure if you want to go back to the main index, or the WordPress index. If you just want to link back to your first index.php, you can simply use <a href="/>Home</a>

Linking back to home page in wordpress

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