florryone

Hi All,

First of all thanks for the helpful post here.
I am trying to use custom field to change the ‘read more’ links of my posts on the homepage of my blog to link through to either individual pages or to the post page.

So far I managed to assign the custom fields value (url) to the link of the post but I cannot get the default value back.

I guess my main problem is letting $field_value be the_permalink() if there is no value in the custom field with the key link
Please let me know if you have any idea how to fix this.

What I have:
an if statement to determine if there is a custom field:
if($field_name=”link”){
$field_value = $field_value = get_post_meta($post->ID, $field_name, true);
}else {
$field_value = the_permalink();
}

The value of $field_value is being read out in the link:
“<?php echo $field_value; ?>”