{"id":2892,"date":"2018-03-02T04:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T04:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.contentviewspro.com\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2023-12-28T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T08:22:29","password":"","slug":"link-media-direct-file-instead-media-page","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/link-media-direct-file-instead-media-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Use direct link for the Media file (don&#8217;t link to the media page)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When showing the Media type by Content Views Pro, by default the media link is URL of the media page where shows:<br \/>\n&#8211; the image, if the media is an image<br \/>\n&#8211; the player, if the media is an audio or a video<br \/>\n&#8211; the title (includes link) of PDF file, if the media is a PDF file<\/p>\n<p>If you want to link the media to its file directly, please add this code to file <strong>functions.php<\/strong> in the theme&#8217;s folder:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-size:13px\">\n\n\/\/ Content Views Pro - Link Media to direct file, instead of media page\nadd_filter( 'pt_cv_field_href', 'cvp_theme_link_media_file_directly', 100, 2 );\nfunction cvp_theme_link_media_file_directly( $args, $post ) {\n\tif ( get_post_type( $post->ID ) === 'attachment' ) {\n\t\t$url = wp_get_attachment_url( $post->ID );\n\t\tif ( $url ) {\n\t\t\t$args = $url;\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\treturn $args;\n}\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When showing the Media type by Content Views Pro, by default the media link is URL of the media page where shows: &#8211; the image, if the media is an image &#8211; the player, if the media is an audio or a video &#8211; the title (includes link) of PDF file, if the media is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/link-media-direct-file-instead-media-page\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use direct link for the Media file (don&#8217;t link to the media page)<\/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":[25],"doc_tag":[21],"class_list":["post-2892","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-adjustment","doc_tag-custom-code"],"year_month":"2026-09","word_count":137,"total_views":0,"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":"Adjustment","term_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/cats\/adjustment\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[{"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\/2892","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=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5488,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2892\/revisions\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}