Assigning Custom Fields

Check out this link:

Go to section: 5.13 and see if that helps you.

-Renee’

I think Renee’s was a good answer but maybe not to what you intended to ask. Please can you give a fuller explanation of the circumstances and of what you want to achieve? The url to the page may be helpful.

Maybe the Links Shortcode plugin can do that.

If you install the plugin, you should get a new item in the Admin page menu: “Links”, where you can create a list of links. You can assign categories to links if you want to create several lists.

To use your list in a post or page, include the shortcode:
[links category_name=”events_links”]
You can add parameters to the shortcode to control how the list is displayed.

There are more formatting options in Admin page / Links / Links shortcode, so you can get the list looking how you want it.

You can use the shortcode, maybe with different parameters, in a text widget in your sidebar, but if so you will need to enable shortcodes in widgets. This can be achieved with the line:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

in wp-content/themes/clean-retina/functions.php.

functions.php will be overwritten if you update your theme, so its best to make a child theme and put this extra code in the child theme’s functions.php. A child theme’s functions.php must have: <?php on the first line. You can do this step as a separate task.

First go to the links tab to add your links. No shortcode.

Next, go to the page where you want the links to appear and just type in the shortcode as text.

When the page displays, WordPress will automatically replace the shortcode with the list of links.

Go back to the links page at:
Admin page / Links / (hover over the link name, Edit will appear) Edit

This goes to the setup page for the link. Scroll down to the categories box, click “+Add New Category”
Enter: events_links and click “Add”
Click “Update Link”

Go back to the page where you want to show the link and type in:
[links category_name=”events_links”]
and Update the page.

For the next link that you make, the category name events_links will be there already, so just click its checkbox.

Choose the “All Links” item. This brings up a list of the links you have made. I think you have made only one so far. Hover over the name of the link you have made, and “Edit” should appear just underneath it.

Should be instant.