Comprehensive Guide: Essential WordPress Functions for Getting and Handling URLs

When developing WordPress themes or plugins, retrieving URLs for various content types and functionalities is an unavoidable task. In this article, I have compiled a comprehensive list of commonly used URL-related functions in WordPress to serve as a quick reference for your development projects.

wp_login_url();
wp_logout_url();
wp_registration_url();
wp_lostpassword_url();
get_edit_user_link($user_id);
get_delete_user_link($user_id);
get_author_posts_url($author_id);
get_dashboard_url($user_id, $path);
get_site_url('/wp-login.php');
get_edit_profile_url();
admin_url('user-edit.php?user_id=' . $user_id);
admin_url('user-new.php');

Theme and Directory Related

get_stylesheet_directory_uri();
get_template_directory_uri();
get_locale_stylesheet_uri();
get_stylesheet_uri();
get_theme_file_uri();
get_parent_theme_file_uri();
get_theme_root_uri();
get_header_image();
get_background_image();
get_custom_logo();
wp_get_canonical_url();

get_permalink($post_id);
the_permalink();
get_the_permalink();
get_post_permalink($post_id);
get_page_link($post_id);
get_post_type_archive_link($post_type);
get_edit_post_link($post_id);
get_delete_post_link($post_id);
get_preview_post_link($post_id);
get_day_link($year, $month, $day);
get_month_link($year, $month);
get_year_link($year);
get_pagenum_link($pagenum);
get_attachment_link($attachment_id);
get_comments_link($post_id);
get_comment_link($comment);
get_post_comments_feed_link($post_id);
get_post_format_link($format);
get_the_post_thumbnail_url();

wp_get_attachment_url();
get_attachment_link();
wp_get_attachment_thumb_url();
wp_get_attachment_image_url();
get_attachment_url();
get_icon_attachment_uri();
get_the_post_thumbnail_url();

get_comments_link($post_id);
get_comment_link($comment);
get_edit_comment_link($comment_id);
get_delete_comment_link($comment_id);
get_post_comments_feed_link($post_id);
get_comment_reply_link($args, $comment, $post);
get_comments_pagenum_link($pagenum);
get_comment_author_url();
get_comment_author_url_link();

home_url();
get_home_url();
site_url();
get_site_url();
content_url();
get_url_in_content();
get_avatar_url();
get_rest_url();
trackback_url();
get_trackback_url();
site_icon_url();
get_site_icon_url();
get_author_posts_url();
the_header_video_url();

includes_url();
plugins_url();
admin_url();
trackback_url();
esc_url_raw();
got_url_rewrite();
trackback_url_list();
wp_customize_url();
get_admin_url();
get_dashboard_url();
menu_page_url();
network_admin_url();
network_site_url();
network_home_url();
plugin_dir_url();
self_admin_url();
user_admin_url();
wp_lostpassword_url();
get_post_embed_url();
get_header_video_url();
get_oembed_endpoint_url();
get_privacy_policy_url();
wp_admin_canonical_url();
wp_privacy_exports_url();
wp_get_update_php_url();
wp_get_default_update_php_url();
wp_get_direct_php_update_url();

URL Processing Functions

parse_url();
wp_parse_url();
download_url();
esc_url();
get_url_in_content();
attachment_url_to_postid();
set_url_scheme();
wp_guess_url();
wp_nonce_url();
get_blog_id_from_url();
get_oembed_response_data_for_url();

rest_url($path, $scheme);
rest_api_url($path, $scheme);
get_rest_url($blog_id, $path, $scheme);
rest_route_url($route, $scheme);
rest_namespace_url($namespace, $scheme);
rest_endpoint_url($endpoint, $scheme);
rest_link($rel, $url, $title);
rest_get_avatar_urls();

wc_get_cart_url();
wc_get_checkout_url();
wc_get_page_permalink( 'shop' )
wc_get_page_permalink( 'myaccount' );
wc_get_account_endpoint_url( 'edit-address' );
wc_get_account_endpoint_url( 'edit-account' );
wc_get_account_endpoint_url( 'payment-methods' );
wc_get_account_endpoint_url( 'lost-password' );
wc_get_account_endpoint_url( 'customer-logout' );
wc_get_account_endpoint_url( 'dashboard' );
wc_get_endpoint_url( 'order-received', $order_id, wc_get_checkout_url() );
get_term_link( 'tables', 'product_cat' );
get_term_link( 'mixed', 'product_tag' );

Beyond the URLs listed in this article, new URL functions may be introduced with future WordPress core releases. Additionally, third-party themes and plugins often provide their own specific URL functions. If you need a URL that isn’t listed here, we recommend searching the codebase or official documentation before writing custom logic.

In most cases, the function names are self-explanatory and intuitive. Therefore, we haven’t included detailed annotations for each function here. When needed, you can easily look up the specific parameters and usage details for any of these functions in the WordPress Developer Resources.