External link as event attribute not linking to external site

  • Resolved emster83

    (@emster83)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    I have tried adding attributes to my events, as I place events from different organisations on my calendar it’s important I can add external links to events (and locations).

    Somehow the links always end up linking to pages on my own website, instead of the external website!

    This is how I put the attributes in the format:

    <a href="{#_ATT{External_link}" target="_blank">#_ATT{External_link}</a><br/>

    Does anyone have any idea why it’s not working?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

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  • caimin_nwl

    (@caimin_nwl)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    It sounds like the links are missing the http:// part.

    Does the below work?

    <a href="http://{#_ATT{External_link}" target="_blank">#_ATT{External_link}</a><br/>

    Thread Starter emster83

    (@emster83)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    That’s what I thought first, but that doesn’t seem the case.

    It keeps adding %7Bhttp// to links (instead of http://.

    Your code did stop it from linking to a non-existent page on my own website though, so that’s a slight improvement…

    caimin_nwl

    (@caimin_nwl)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Can you post a link to a page where this is happening?

    Thread Starter emster83

    (@emster83)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Here’s a link to an event where this is happening
    As you can see, the link http://nietstilzitten.nl links to %7Bhttpnietstilzitten.nl, which is non-existent.

    julieofga

    (@julieofga)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    When I rollover your link, I see an extra { . Could that be the issue? The HTML shows this:
    <a href=”http://{http://nietstilzitten.nl”

    Not sure where it is coming from, though.

    Hope that helps,
    Julie

    Thread Starter emster83

    (@emster83)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, I missed that extra { when putting in code for the layout.

    Ander after removing the `http://’ before the #_ATT{Externallink} key, it works perfectly!

    The right code now looks like this:

    Website: <a href="#_ATT{External_link}" target="_blank">#_ATT{External_link}</a><br />

    Thanks for all the help!

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