Can I get a “base URL” in WordPress within a template file?

Question

Usually in my PHP apps I have a base URL setup so I can do things like this

tom/jones\">Tom
         


        

Answer 1

get_bloginfo('wpurl'); would be the preferred method of getting the base url of your WordPress installation. This always returns the absolute base url for the install where as get_bloginfo('url'); is for the actual blog address of your WordPress install.