{"id":1996,"date":"2017-08-25T08:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T08:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/docs.contentviewspro.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2023-12-29T03:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T03:37:43","password":"","slug":"link-custom-field-to-post-url","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/link-custom-field-to-post-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Link the custom field to the post URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content Views Pro helps you to <a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/how-to-show-wordpress-custom-field\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">show custom fields<\/a> easily. By default, value of fields will be shown as they were added.<br \/>\nIf you want to link the shown custom field to the URL of post which contains that custom field, please add this code to file <strong>functions.php<\/strong> of your active theme:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-size:13px\">\n\/\/ Content Views Pro - Link custom field to post URL\nadd_filter( 'pt_cv_ctf_value', 'cvp_theme_ctf_link_to_post', 100, 3 );\nfunction cvp_theme_ctf_link_to_post( $args, $key, $post ) {\n\tif ( $key == 'NAME_OF_FIELD' ) {\n\t\t$args = sprintf( '&lt;a href=&quot;%s&quot;&gt;%s&lt;\/a&gt;', get_permalink( $post ), $args );\n\t}\n\n\treturn $args;\n}\n<\/pre>\n<p>(Please replace <strong>NAME_OF_FIELD<\/strong> with name of your custom field)<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content Views Pro helps you to show custom fields easily. By default, value of fields will be shown as they were added. If you want to link the shown custom field to the URL of post which contains that custom field, please add this code to file functions.php of your active theme: \/\/ Content Views &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/link-custom-field-to-post-url\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Link the custom field to the post URL<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[52],"doc_tag":[13,21],"class_list":["post-1996","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-custom-field","doc_tag-custom-field","doc_tag-custom-code"],"year_month":"2026-09","word_count":124,"total_views":"1","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"CVP","author_nicename":"cvp","author_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/author\/cvp\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Custom Field (core, ACF, Metabox, etc.)","term_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/cats\/custom-field\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[{"term_name":"custom field","term_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/tags\/custom-field\/"},{"term_name":"custom PHP code","term_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/tags\/custom-code\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5608,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1996\/revisions\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}