WordPress › Support Topic: Read and rewrite a custom field

WordPress › Support Topic: Read and rewrite a custom field http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: Read and rewrite a custom field en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:14:43 +0000 nandayo on "Read and rewrite a custom field" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/262692#post-1047498 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:30:10 +0000 nandayo 1047498@http://wordpress.org/support/ Hello, weird question: Currently I’m fetching something from a custom field to show it up on the post. Example: Custom field "URL": <code>URL:<a href="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "url", $single = true);?>"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "url", $single = true);?></a></code> So when I enter <a href="http://www.domain.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.domain.com</a> as a custom field, it shows up as <a href="http://www.domain.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.domain.com</a> on the published post. Perfect. But what if the URL is long and if I don’t want to use some tiny url creator? I would like to enter some long address (<a href="http://www.domain.com/directory/someaddress.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.domain.com/directory/someaddress.html</a>) in a custom field and it should shop up as "http://www.domain.com" (but the a href should be the real address). Is that possible? I sure know that I can truncate the address, but then it’s not usable... Anyone? Thanks!