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Problem<\/h2>\n

In WordPress, the default theme, twenty_eleven, has a function called\u00a0twentyeleven_continue_reading_link. \u00a0This method is supposed to return the permalink for the current excerpt. \u00a0However if you use\u00a0setup_postdata() and call the_excerpt() the permalink will return the current page’s permalink, not the excerpt’s permalink.<\/p>\n

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Solution<\/h2>\n

The reason it returns the current page’s permalink is because get_permalink() gets the permalink for $post which is the current page. \u00a0To resolve this, I looked in setup_postdata to see what it is doing. \u00a0setup_postdata is setting a global $id variable each time you call it. \u00a0This means that same $id variable is the excerpts id. \u00a0Which means in the\u00a0twentyeleven_continue_reading_link method, instead of calling get_permalink(), you can declare the global $id variable and call get_permalink($id). \u00a0See the updated method below.<\/p>\n

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