Automatically link #hashtags within a textarea / single line field?

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Tagged: Setting up custom fields, Setting up custom taxonomy, Types fields API, Types plugin, Views, Views plugin, WordPress Archives

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Last updated by Christian Cox 4 years, 7 months ago.

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April 25, 2020 at 3:05 pm #1600789

Bobby339

Tell us what you are trying to do? Make Toolset automatically hyperlink any single word (without a space) with a # in front of it... aka a hashtag like #toolsetrocks that would become a hyperlink when displayed in a view/template that when clicked on would automatically link to a search result with that hashtag and show other posts using that hashtag.

Is there any documentation that you are following? I tried searching the toolset threads but found nothing.

Is there a similar example that we can see? Twitter, Facebook, etc...

April 26, 2020 at 7:16 pm #1601741

Christian Cox

Hello, I think it's a great idea but it's not currently built-in to Toolset or WordPress so I think you would need to submit this as a new feature request. Our management team reviews the requests submitted here and takes our customers' opinions into consideration: https://toolset.com/home/contact-us/suggest-a-new-feature-for-toolset/

One similar solution that is available right now is to create a custom flat taxonomy and add tags for each hashtag you want to associate with a post. You could even create HTML links to those tags directly in the post content. Then use the wpv-post-taxonomy shortcode to display a list of those tags for each post - those could be set up to link to the taxonomy archive for each term. It wouldn't be as automatic as what you're describing, but the functionality could be very similar.