http://google.com

Content Views Pro will convert that URL string to a HTML link (anchor tag):
http://google.com

How to use a custom text for the link?
There are 2 possible ways:

1. Manually replace the URL string in the value of custom field by an anchor tag:

<a target="_blank" href="http://google.com">YOUR TEXT HERE</a>

2. Dynamically replace the URL string by an anchor tag using PHP code.
Please add this code to file functions.php in the theme’s folder (or install this plugin Code Snippets then add this code to the “Code” textarea):

// Content Views Pro - custom text for URL custom fields
add_filter( 'pt_cv_ctf_url_text', 'cvp_theme_ctf_url_text', 100, 2 );
function cvp_theme_ctf_url_text( $args, $key ) {
	if ( $key === 'CUSTOM_FIELD_1' ) {
		$args = 'Text1';
	}
	if ( $key === 'CUSTOM_FIELD_2' ) {
		$args = 'Text2';
	}
	if ( $key === 'CUSTOM_FIELD_3' ) {
		$args = 'Text3';
	}

	return $args;
}

(replace CUSTOM_FIELD_1, CUSTOM_FIELD_2, CUSTOM_FIELD_3 with your custom field keys. If you have only one custom field, just replace CUSTOM_FIELD_1 with your custom field key.)

Best regards,

WordPress has the ability to assign custom fields to a post. Each custom field is handled with key/value pairs. The key is the name of the custom field. The value is the information that you want to store in that custom field.

To add a new custom field to a WordPress post, you need to edit the post.
In the post editing page:

• scroll down to the area titled Custom Fields
• enter name and value of the custom field to the Name and Value columns
• click Add Custom Field button to save this custom field

If this is the first custom field on your WordPress site, you might need to click “Enter new” link to start adding the new custom field.

Couldn’t find “Custom Fields” area

• Custom fields are hidden by default, at the first time, you need to enable it:
  

  For WordPress 5.0 and later

  + For older versions of WordPress, click the ellipsis icon (near the gear icon), click Options and check the Custom Fields box (under “Advanced Panels”).

  + For newer versions of WordPress, click the ellipsis icon (near the gear icon):
  

  click Preferences:
  
  

  click Panels and check the Custom Fields box (under “Additional”):

  

  ---

  For WordPress 4.9.9 and prior

  + click on Screen Options tab at top right corner of the page:
  

  + select the Custom Fields checkbox in the expanded area:
  

• If you can’t see the Custom Fields option, the current post type might not support custom field.
  To add a new custom field for this post type, you can install a custom field plugin (for example: Advanced Custom Fields), it will help you to add a custom field to any post types easily.

After adding custom field, you can show custom field easily (read more)

Best regards,

// Content Views Pro - Link custom field to post URL
add_filter( 'pt_cv_ctf_value', 'cvp_theme_ctf_link_to_post', 100, 3 );
function cvp_theme_ctf_link_to_post( $args, $key, $post ) {
	if ( $key == 'NAME_OF_FIELD' ) {
		$args = sprintf( '<a href="%s">%s</a>', get_permalink( $post ), $args );
	}

	return $args;
}

(Please replace NAME_OF_FIELD with name of your custom field)

Best regards,

// Content Views Pro - format a numeric custom field value
add_filter( 'pt_cv_ctf_value', 'cvp_theme_ctf_format_value', 100, 3 );
function cvp_theme_ctf_format_value( $args, $key, $post ) {
	if ( $key == 'FIELD_NAME' ) {
		// Format the number
		$decimals	     = 0;
		$decimals_point	     = '.';
		$thousands_separator = ',';
		$formated_value	     = number_format( (float) $args, $decimals, $decimals_point, $thousands_separator );

		// Add "$" before number, add "USD" after number
		$args = sprintf( '$ %s USD', $formated_value );
	}

	return $args;
}

Please replace FIELD_NAME with name of your custom field.

Best regards,

• Filter by Custom Field:
  “Field Key”: select the custom field that you want to filter
  “Value Type”: select Text (or another option depending on value type of selected field),
  “Operator To Compare”: select Equal (=) (or another option depending on your needs),
  “Value To Compare”: enter 1 (or enter actual value, please ensure value is not blank or empty).
  
• then add this code to file functions.php of your active theme:

  // Content Views Pro - set value of custom field dynamically
  add_filter( 'pt_cv_query_ctf_value', 'cvp_theme_query_ctf_dynamic_value', 100, 2 );
  function cvp_theme_query_ctf_dynamic_value( $args, $key ) {
  	global $pt_cv_id;
  	if ( $pt_cv_id === 'VIEW_ID' && $key === 'NAME_OF_CUSTOM_FIELD' ) {
  
  		/* Todo: replace 1 by PHP expression/function to set dynamic value for custom field */
  		$value = 1;
  
  		if ( PT_CV_Functions::setting_value( PT_CV_PREFIX . 'enable-pagination' ) ) {
  			global $pt_cv_id;
  			$trans_key = 'cvp_ctf_value_' . $key . $pt_cv_id;
  			if ( !defined( 'PT_CV_DOING_PAGINATION' ) ) {
  				set_transient( $trans_key, $value, 1 * HOUR_IN_SECONDS );
  			} else {
  				$value = get_transient( $trans_key );
  			}
  		}
  
  		// If value is not empty (0, null, false, empty string/array)
  		if ( !empty( $value ) ) {
  			$args = $value;
  		}
  	}
  
  	return $args;
  }
  

  and replace VIEW_ID with ID of your View, replace NAME_OF_CUSTOM_FIELD with name of the custom field.

If you want to filter the posts that have custom field value is same as custom field value of current post, you can replace $value = 1; in above code with this code:

global $post;
$meta = get_post_meta( $post->ID );
$value = !empty( $meta[ 'NAME_OF_CUSTOM_FIELD' ][ 0 ] ) ? $meta[ 'NAME_OF_CUSTOM_FIELD' ][ 0 ] : 0;

(replace NAME_OF_CUSTOM_FIELD with name of the custom field)

Notice: This task requires coding skill. So please ensure that you know what to do.

Best regards,

If you have not added any custom field yet, please check this document (click here).

To show custom field, please follow these steps:

• Click Content Views >> Add New to creating new View to show custom field
• Click Display Settings tab of the View

  

• In Fields Settings section, click the Show Custom Fields checkbox.
  In Select Fields, select the custom fields you want to show:

  
  (The options to select are the Name of the custom fields:
  
  )

Best regards,

1. create a new View, select custom fields and meta fields you want to show.
   
   Especially, you might need to select the option All / Multi post types for Filter Settings > Content Type to match the post type correctly and automatically.
   
2. show the View:
   • To show for specific posts only, please edit these posts, then add below shortcode to text editor:

     [pt_view id="VIEW_ID" post_id="GET_CURRENT"]
     

   • To show for each of all posts, please add this code to file functions.php in the theme’s folder (or install this plugin Code Snippets then add this code to the “Code” textarea):

     // Content Views Pro - show related posts for each post
     add_filter( 'the_content', 'cvp_theme_show_info_of_current_post', 999 );
     function cvp_theme_show_info_of_current_post( $content ) {
     	if ( is_single() ) {
     		ob_start();
     		echo do_shortcode( '[pt_view id="VIEW_ID" post_id="GET_CURRENT"]' );
     		$content .= ob_get_clean();
     	}
     	return $content;
     }
     

   Please replace VIEW_ID in above code with ID of the View in step 1.

Best regards,

Since Content Views Pro version 5.5.0, you can easily show image custom field as thumbnail without coding.

Here is the configuration in Display Settings >> Fields Settings >> Thumbnail of the View to show any image custom field as thumbnail:

Content Views Pro version 5.4.1 and prior

For previous Pro versions, to show the custom field as thumbnail, please follow steps below:

• In the View where you want to show the custom field as thumbnail, select the Show Thumbnail checkbox in Display Settings >> Fields settings.
• Under Display Settings >> Fields settings >> Thumbnail >> Substitute, please configure as below:
  
• Add this code to file functions.php of your active theme:

  // Content Views Pro - Use custom field as thumbnail
  add_filter( 'pt_cv_field_content_excerpt', 'cvp_theme_custom_field_as_thumbnail', 999, 3 );
  function cvp_theme_custom_field_as_thumbnail( $args, $fargs, $post ) {
  	if ( empty( $fargs ) ) {
  		$custom_field = 'CUSTOM_FIELD';
  
  		$fval = null;
  		if ( class_exists( 'CVP_CTF' ) ) {
  			$ctf  = new CVP_CTF( $custom_field, $post, true, '' );
  			$fval = isset( $ctf->field_value ) ? $ctf->field_value : $fval;
  		}
  
  		if ( empty( $fval ) ) {
  			$meta = get_post_meta( $post->ID );
  			$fval = !empty( $meta[ $custom_field ][ 0 ] ) ? $meta[ $custom_field ][ 0 ] : $fval;
  		}
  
  		$args = $fval ? sprintf( "<img src='%s'>", esc_url( $fval ) ) : $args;
  	}
  
  	return $args;
  }
  

  (replace CUSTOM_FIELD with name/key of your custom field).

Notice: If you created custom field with Toolset plugin, you may need to add prefix wpcf-. For example, you created a custom field post-image with Toolset plugin, then the value of CUSTOM_FIELD should be wpcf-post-image.

Thank you,

To make it work correctly, please specify MySQL date format of the value (stored in database) of your custom field.

Here are some common formats:
%m/%d/%Y (for m/d/Y)
%m-%d-%Y (for m-d-Y)
%d/%m/%Y (for d/m/Y)
%d-%m-%Y (for d-m-Y)

Here are some examples:
date value is Jan 01 1970 => date format is %b %d %Y
date value is 1st/01/1970 => date format is %D/%m/%Y
date value is 2020-10-20 => date format is %Y-%m-%d
date value is 1543310966 => date format is _UNIX_TIMESTAMP_ (this custom format is available since Content Views Pro version 5.4.0)

Please check below table to get correct format for each part in your date value.

Source: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format

Add simple icon, text

Please add this code to Custom CSS field in Content Views >> Settings page:

.pt-cv-custom-fields[class*="FIELD_KEY"] {
    display: block !important;
}
.pt-cv-custom-fields[class*="FIELD_KEY"]:before {
    display: block;
    content: 'Your text here';
}
.pt-cv-custom-fields[class*="FIELD_KEY"]:after {
    display: block;
    content: 'Your text here';
}

(replace FIELD_KEY with the key of your custom field)

This is a sample to show a FontAwesome icon before the value:

.pt-cv-custom-fields[class*="FIELD_KEY"]:before {
    display: block;
    font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Brands";
    content: "\f082"; /* replace f082 with Unicode of the icon you want to use */
}

(to use FontAwesome, you need add this code to the header.php file of the theme:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.7.2/css/all.css">

)

Add complex HTML

Please add this code to file functions.php in the directory of your active theme:

// Content Views Pro - Prepend prefix for custom field
add_filter( 'pt_cv_ctf_value', 'cvp_theme_ctf_value_prepend', 100, 3 );
function cvp_theme_ctf_value_prepend( $value, $key, $post ) {

	if ( $key === 'FIELD_KEY_1' ) {
		$value = 'YOUR CUSTOM HTML' . $value . 'YOUR CUSTOM HTML';
	}

	if ( $key === 'FIELD_KEY_2' ) {
		$value = 'YOUR CUSTOM HTML' . $value . 'YOUR CUSTOM HTML';
	}

	// and so on
	
	return $value;
}

For both cases, please replace FIELD_KEY_1, FIELD_KEY_2 with name of your custom fields.

Best regards,