Adding a URL from custom field in php & WP theme WordPress
Hi all
I have been struggling with this for hours and hours now, hopefully someone here can help.
I have a post, which has a custom field as a website URL.
I want to change single.php to state:
Website: www.greatsitethis.com where that wording is also the href which is called from the custom field.
The code looks like this:
if (get_post_meta($post->ID,'weblink1',true)) :
echo '<h3><div class="exhibitor-info">';
echo "Website: " . get_post_meta($post->ID,'weblink1',true);
echo '</div></h3>';
endif;
This displays everything, but I simply cant get it to include the href no matter what I try, to make the href the weblink1 custom field.
Can anyone help me out? Much appreciated.
Answers (1)
Pixel Coder answers:
If called outside the loop make sure to set
global $post;
If within the loop, that should be fine.
Without seeing the whole file it's kinda hard to say. That's how you call custom fields though.
Rob Llewellyn comments:
Hi Alistair, thanks for the speedy reply, much appreciated.
Yea that calls the custom field no problem, but if I want to make that a hyperlink as well, I need to call the custom link again to be the URL.
<a href=" http:// . get_post_meta($post->ID,'weblink1',true);"> HERE </a>
I dont know what that piece of code is meant to look like as an href in my code. It never works, I must be missing some syntax for the php in this instance.....?
Pixel Coder comments:
Hi Rob,
No problems, email notifications are handy.
Here you go.
<?php $website1 = get_post_meta($post->ID,'weblink1',true); ?>
<?php if(isset($website1)) : ?>
<a href="<?php echo $website1; ?>"><?php echo $website1; ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>
That should do it and thanks for clarification.
Alistair
Rob Llewellyn comments:
Thanks Alistair. I wish I'd dropped a question in here an hour or so ago!!!
I've closed the question as resolved and its donated to the site.
I take it you get the kick back from that?
Thanks again, awesome.
Rob