[Resolved] Custom Field with link to page url

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[davidA-20]

Hi

I have a view in my site footer with links to my county pages. -

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At the moment the view shows the page title, linked to the url of the page. To save space and stop the repetition of "Stone Floor Cleaning", each page has a custom field with the name of the county, e.g. Pows, West Midlands, Glasgow etc.

I want to just show the custom field - county name - linking to the page.

I have tried to work this out myself but can't work out how to achieve it.

I look forward to your reply

[Nigel]

I'm guessing that you are using the legacy editor for Views (using markup and shortcodes) rather than the Blocks interface, and that your View that lists these pages in the footer currently outputs the page titles as links using the wpv-post-link shortcode.

That generates a link to the post and the link text is the title; it's not possible to specify alternative text to use.

But you can create your own links, something like this:

<a href="[wpv-post-url]">[types field="county-field"][/types]</a>

There, the text is generated from the custom field value (you'll need to use the appropriate field slug) while the link href comes from the target post (or page in this case).

[davidA-20]

Thank you, you got it.

My ignorance is how to get the url for the page.

I have tried

[Shane]

Hi David,

Here is the correct format below.

<a href = "[wpv-post-url]"> [types field='pagecounty'][/types] </a>

Please let me know if this works now.

Thanks,
Shane

[davidA-20]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!