Did you try to rename the ACF field to something else? For example: external-link.
The field “link” is already in use for every post and renerates a link to the post.
This is exactly what happened to me – see my ‘maito’ post, just below this.
It was working.
Sorry this isn’t an answer – but atleast its not just me!
Hello,
Thanks, Peter, for pointing out that link is a predefined field name. That’s why it’s outputting a link inside a link.
This is a design flaw, that the field parameter looks for a predefined field with that name, then a custom field. So it cannot display a custom field which has the same name as a predefined field – such as title, link, etc.
In the newest plugin update, I added a parameter to resolve this. Please set custom=true to get a custom field that has the same name as a predefined field.
[content type=text-blocks name=tickets-banner field=link custom=true]
Not so elegant, but at least you don’t have to change the field name.
Thanks everyone. @eliot Akira I tried adding custom=true, but that didn’t seem to work exactly. While it now returned my custom field, link, as text, it also returned the link of the post as a url. The result was mashed up.
If you’d like me to set up a sandbox demo, I can, but I’m not too concerned now since changing the custom field from link to custom_link works just fine.
Oops, I forgot that some predefined fields get wrapped in a link before it’s returned. I’ll fix this in the next update.
Using the [link] shortcode is another way to build a link from a field value, and is actually now more recommended than using a shortcode inside an HTML attribute. I also added the custom parameter for it.
[link type=text-blocks name=tickets-banner field=link custom=true]Click here[/link]
