Adding an anchor to previous_post_links and next_posts_links in WordPress

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In my WordPress theme I have a gallery at the top and blog posts below it. Each time I click the previous or next posts links it goes to the top which I don't want so I have created an anchor called #blog and placed in my html just below the gallery. How do add the anchor to the previous_post_links and next_posts_links to make it work? Is there a JavaScript solution for this?

You may need to use a filter to modify the link produced by these functions. — Jrod, Nov 13 '12 at 20:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 02 '15 at 17:45

I know this is an old question, but here is how I dealt with adding an anchor to the previous and next posts link. You would add this into functions.php between the opening and closing tags.

add_filter('get_pagenum_link', 'whatever_next_previous_anchor');

function whatever_next_previous_anchor($url) {
    return $url . '#blog';
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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Do the next and previous links have an ID or class that identifies them? Even if they don't you can still use Javascript or Jquery to append the #blog anchor to each link value. Check out this link Adding a parameter to the URL with JavaScript.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Nov 13 '12 at 20:04

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You should not use javascript in this case. Come on. – Jean Nov 13 '12 at 20:06
Ok, Javascript wouldn't be the recommended approach but if that is how you would like to do it then I have provided the solution. – thestepafter Nov 13 '12 at 20:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 13 '12 at 20:11

I think that should do it, by using get_previous_post() instead :

     $prev_post = get_previous_post();
     if (!empty( $prev_post )): ?>
      <a href="<?php echo get_permalink( $prev_post->ID ); ?>#blog">
        <?php echo $prev_post->post_title; ?></a>
     <?php endif; ?>

Adding an anchor to previous_post_links and next_posts_links in WordPress

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