how do I encode links to specific archive searches?

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I want to embed links to the archive pages with specific search criteria. i.e Links to specific categories, links to specific authors etc etc

At the moment I am adding the links using anchor tags, but these will fail if the permalinks change

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  1. WordPress can generate these, so you can too. You would need to use the same function that WordPress does.

    For category it would be something like:

    $category =  get_category_by_slug( 'example' );
$link = get_category_link( $category->term_id );

    Similarly there is get_tag_link() and on deeper level they all really use get_term_link()

    I didn’t play much with authors, but there is the_author_posts_link() and probably some get_ analogue.

  2. Category archives, author archives, date archives, etc will not experience permalink changes. If you’re using pretty permalinks, http://yourblog.com/category/my-cool-category will always present you with a list of posts from my-cool-category. Likewise, http://yourblog.com/author/mildfuzz will always present you with a list of posts published by mildfuzz.

    The only tricky part is if you want to display other information on the archive page (like an author bit for an author archive) … but there are tutorials available for that kind of work.