Getting Post Permalink By Post Id Doesn’t Work

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In my WordPress blog I am trying to get post permalink of a post of custom post type for which I add this code to function.php 

function get_randomp() { ?>
<?php 
$args=array('post_type'=>'photo', 'orderby'=>'rand', 'posts_per_page'=>'1'); 
$photo=new WP_Query($args); while ($photo->have_posts()) : $photo->the_post();
?>
<?php echo get_the_ID(); ?>
<?php
endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
<?php } ?>

and this added this code in sidebar.php to output the permalink,

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<?php 
$postidr = get_randomp();
echo get_permalink( $postidr ); 
?>

But it is showing permalink of the current post which is being viewed.
Please help me guys.

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2 comments

  1. the working code is here, put this into your theme functions.php 

    function get_randomp() { 

$args=array('post_type'=>'photo', 'orderby'=>'rand', 'posts_per_page'=>'1'); 
$photo=new WP_Query($args); while ($photo->have_posts()) : $photo->the_post();


echo '<a href="' . get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">';
echo 'Link';
echo '</a>';

endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();
 }
 add_action( 'init', 'get_randomp',1);

    and call it as get_randomp(); wherever you want

  2. Your function shouldn’t echo the result, rather it should return it. You also have very malformed code, try this instead:

    function get_randomp() { 
    $args = array('post_type'=>'photo', 'orderby'=>'rand', 'posts_per_page'=>'1'); 
    $photos = new WP_Query($args); // Posts set to variable

    $photo = current($photos); // Get first, and only, post

    wp_reset_postdata(); // Reset posts

    return $photo->ID; // Return ID from post object
}