WPML Get url without outputting

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I am in the process of migrating from qTranslate to WPML to handle my languages.

With qTranslate, I had a very simple way to get an url to a page or post knowing it’s slug: $url = get_language_url(home_url($slug));

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Now with WPML I can’t find a way to do that…

There’s the icl_link_to_element function but it directly outputs the link in a a tag.. Besides, you need to know the post ID.

Any way I can get a link to a post in the correct language, knowing it’s slug?

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  1. Actually WordPress lacks a real function to get posts by slug/post-name. But you can use get_page_by_path() for it so you don’t have to use a custom query:

    if(function_exists('icl_object_id')) {
   $post = get_page_by_path('your-slug');
   $id = icl_object_id($post->ID,'post',true);
   $link = get_permalink($id);
}

    The only difference here is that you must use the full path i.e. ('parent-page/sub-page') if you have a hierarchical structure. For posts and non-hierarchical pages you can just use the slug as param.

  2. You can get link to a post by it’s slug using following code.

    <?php
global $wpdb;
$id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_name = 'name-of-slug'");
    if(function_exists('icl_object_id')){
        get_permalink(icl_object_id($id,'post',true)); 
    }
?>

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