blog_url() and get_blog_url() template tags

[johnjamesjacoby]

With usage of WordPress as a CMS increasing, the blog is not always the focal point. It would be great if there were template tags available to get the blog url, basically a wrapper for getting the options if it's set to a WordPress page, and defaulting to home_url( '/' ) if not.

Patched against r19759 (trunk)

Since we already have site_url(), let's try to pick a name that is less confusing. Perhaps blog_page_url() or something.

This might be a duplicate of another ticket, but I'm not locating anything.

Replying to nacin:

Since we already have site_url(), let's try to pick a name that is less confusing. Perhaps blog_page_url() or something.

Agree the nomenclature gets increasingly confusing. Possible permutations:

• get_/blog_url()
• get_/blog_link()
• get_/blog_permalink()
• get_/blog_page_url()
• get_/blog_page_link()
• get_/blog_page_permalink()

I wrote a similar patch before finding this ticket, which covers pretty much everything I thought of. An additional idea I had was to return the last post if the blog uses a static front page but doesn't have a posts page set. In that case, I think the last post (if one exists) makes the most sense as their blog URL.