Anchor links referring to itself

• steve_linn

• May 8, 2014 at 5:39 am

I created a text field “website”

here is my code

<p><a href="<?php the_field('web_address');?>" target="_blank" ><?php the_title(); ?> Website </a></p>

works fine, except when the field is blank — then the link is automatically set to the page URL

is this a WordPress issue or a custom fields issue

• enorog

• May 8, 2014 at 6:08 pm

Well, either set the field “web_address” to “required” or check for existence of the field first before creating the paragraph with the link.

<?php if (get_field('web_address')) { ?>
  // your code
<?php } ?>

And I don’t think the link is to the page URL when not filled out in the backend, it’s probably just empty. Try this:

echo get_field('web_address')

And you should get nothing for an empty field.