Links do not appear as links

• mmjaeger

• August 20, 2013 at 1:09 am

Hello
when entering a link into a textarea or wysiwyg field it does not appear as link on the website.

I must be missing something.

Any ideas?

Thanks

• Elliot

• August 20, 2013 at 2:40 pm

Hi @mmjaeger

ACF does not have an auto link generator built in.

Perhaps you are expecting functionality that does not exist.

You can use the link button in your WYSIWYG field to create links on text

• Elliot

• August 20, 2013 at 2:41 pm

Also, your topic title is very missleading to other readers. WOuldn’t it be better written as:

‘Links in text field are not automatically converted to tags. Is this a bug, or do I need to write some code?’

• mmjaeger

• August 20, 2013 at 11:12 pm

Thanks for replying Elliot – actually this is not about converting links to tags – this is about entering plain html code incl. a tags like <a href=…. that do not appear as links in the front-end also I’ve entered the html code properly?

• Elliot

• August 21, 2013 at 2:23 pm

Hi @mmjaeger

Perhaps you could show the code you are using?

• mmjaeger

• August 22, 2013 at 1:20 pm

something weird is going on here:

//$teaser_content = get_post_meta( $id, 'fld_teaser_content', true );
$teaser_content = get_field( 'fld_teaser_content', $id, true );

the first disabled line of code actually returns the content of the field – however links are not showing as links

the second line of code doesn’t return the field content

Hope you got an idea?

What am I missing

• Elliot

• August 22, 2013 at 2:49 pm

Hi @mmjaeger

What is the 3rd parameter in the get_field function?

Can you confirm that the field_name is correct?
Can you confirm that $id is correct? Is this even needed?

• mmjaeger

• August 22, 2013 at 10:49 pm

I thought the third paramenter in get_field is for the format – nevertheless, plain get_field(‘fld_teaser_content’) doesn’t return anything either whereas get_post_meta always returns the correct value?

this is the whole function – hope it helps:

add_filter( 'genesis_before_entry_content', 'custom_entry_content' );
function custom_entry_content() {	
	if ( !is_single() )
		return;
		
	$id = get_the_ID();
	if ( empty($id) )
		return;
			
	$teaser_content = get_post_meta( $id, 'fld_teaser_content', true );
	//$teaser_content = get_field( 'fld_teaser_content', $id, true );
	
	if ( empty( $teaser_content ) )
		return;
	
	$html  = "\n\t"   . '<div class="teaser-box neutral-box">';
	$html .= "\n\t\t" . '<div class="teaser-header"><h6><i class="icon-pushpin pull-right"></i>Hinweis</h6></div>';
	$html .= "\n\t\t" . '<div class="teaser-content">' . sanitize_text_field( $teaser_content ) . '</div>';
	$html .= "\n\t\t" . '<div class="teaser-footer">Bitte <a href="?page_id=38" title="Kontakt">kontaktieren</a> Sie uns für ein unverbindliches Gespräch.</div>';
	$html .= "\n\t"   .'</div>';

	echo $html;				
	
}	

• Elliot

• August 23, 2013 at 2:19 pm

Hi @mmjaeger

$teaser_content = get_field( 'fld_teaser_content', $id );

Should work. Can you confirm that $id is correct?

• mmjaeger

• August 24, 2013 at 1:19 am

not working – I echoed the id – id is certainly correct.

• mmjaeger

• August 24, 2013 at 1:23 am

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• Elliot

• August 25, 2013 at 4:22 pm

Hi @mmjaeger

Sorry, but I am not able to access and write code for your site.
There are plenty of code examples and 100,000s of success stories using ACF.

I don’t understand why you can’t get this simple get_field to work, but perhaps some debugging / investigating is needed.

Good luck

Thanks
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