How should I add links to other pages/posts from my post?

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1. You have a couple options. Both involve using the post ID because that doesn’t change.

   1. You could use the ugly URL in the form of http://www.example.com/?p=23 where ?p=23 would be the ID of the post.

   2. You can use a shortcode that accepts the post ID and outputs a link using get_permalink().

   The following shortcode would be used like this.

   [postlink id=23]Some link text goes here[/postlink]
   

   And here is the function.

   function postlink_id_to_slug( $atts, $content = null ) {
   extract( shortcode_atts( array(
       'id' => ''
   ), $atts ) );
   
   if ( $id == '' || ! is_numeric( $id ) || $content == null) return false;
   
   return '<a href="' . get_permalink( $id ) . '">' . $content . '</a>';
   }
   add_shortcode( 'postlink', 'postlink_id_to_slug' );
   

   I should mention that there are a number of ways to find the ID of a post. One way is to open the post in the post editor and then find post=xx in the URL in your browser’s address field where xx is the numerical ID.

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   Just to know: this plugin does same thing in a more flexible manner.

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