How to give hyperlink in wordpress

Question

I am writing code in my wordpress themes folder. i am giving hyperlink to another page from my index page but its not working.

     <li><a href="admin/admin.php"> Admin </a></li>

Link is not working like this

I am new to wordpress. Can anybody help me with this.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You have to use full path for that link, so, that would be http://site-url/slug. You can achieve that by using following code.

<li><a href="<?php echo site_url();?>/admin/admin.php"> Admin </a></li>

The site_url template tag retrieves the site url for the current site (where the WordPress core files reside) with the appropriate protocol, 'https' if is_ssl() and 'http' otherwise.

You can read more about site_url