This can prove to be a pain during the development or migration process. It can also make it annoying if you happen to change your permalink structure and have tons of posts.

Introducing dynamically inserted WordPress permalinks with The Permalinker

The Permalinker will allow you to use WordPress short codes to dynamically insert permalinks and permalink URLs into your posts via the content editor.

How it works:

When editing content, simply use the the short code to insert a link:

[permalink]This is a link to the current post

Linking to a different post:

You can set the id attribute in the short code to point to a specific page/post:

A link to post 23

Supported anchor attributes:

Currently, the following attributes are supported in the short code and will be added to the resulting anchor element: class, rel, and target.

[permalink id=23 class="my_class" rel="self" target="_blank"]Open post 23 in a new window

Want more control over your markup?

Using a non-terminating or empty http://theandystratton.com/2009/the-permalinker-wordpress-plugin-dynamic-permalinks short code will simply output the permalink URL:

<a href="http://theandystratton.com/2009/9-revision-3" class="thickbox" id="link_23">Another link to page/post 23</a>

There’s more: Dynamically grab your template directory

As a request from fellow WordPress designers and developers, I’ve included a http://theandystratton.com/wp-content/themes/theandystratton short code as well, allowing you to quickly and dynamically get the full URL to your active template directory from the content editor:

<img src="http://theandystratton.com/wp-content/themes/theandystratton/photos/yoda.gif" alt="A picture of Yoda!" />

Download Permalinker

You can learn more and download The Permalinker from the WordPress plugin repository.

Happy coding ;]

Some Requirments.

1. Sorry, but you’re going to need ISAPI Rewrite 3. You can download a lite version for free, but I suggest purchasing it. I’ve used ISAPI Rewrite for years now with clients on Windows hosting, and it’s the bees knees. Version 3 is now supporting many common mod_rewrite directives, which is sweet.
2. Your .htaccess file. Here’s an example that has worked with WordPress 2.7.x, ISAPI Rewrite 3, and Windows Server 2003/IIS 6.0:

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule .* /index.php [L]
   

How it works.
Even with ISAPI Rewrite, your WordPress permalinks most likely will be broken without the ugly, prepended /index.php/. The problem is that the REQUEST_URI server variable is not sent by IIS or ISAPI Rewrite. This plugin solves this.

This solution is more elegant that changing the WordPress core files because it allows you to easily upgrade WordPress without additional maintenance.

Download and Documentation.
You can download ISAPI Rewriter from the WordPress Plugin directory.

You can view documentation at the ISAPI Rewrite plugin page.