one3rdnerd

Exactly! 🙂 Sorry if I didn’t articulate that very well.

So yes

There is the standard button (which I will probably hide later)

and then I have custom fields added using the WP-Types Toolset for

1) USA Affiliate Link
2) UK Affiliate Link

These are then output as buttons with something like below in the views template editor for my product page

<a class="single_add_to_cart_button button alt" href="[types field="supplier-link-uk" output="raw"][/types]" title="[wpv-post-title]" target="_blank">Buy Now</a>

Now WP-Types prefixes your custom fields with wpcf which is why I have wpcf- at the start of my custom field slug.

Views just lets me use a shortcode like [types field=”supplier-link-uk” output=”raw”] to get the data from the specific custom field.

I am doing this because I need multiple buttons, does that help you come up with any alternative approach I could use to hook into the $external_link filter/feature your plugin makes available?

Yeah WooCommerce Cloak Affiliate Links plugin is still active.

I am wondering if it has anything to do with WPTypes plugin as they use the render types function more often than I see them using the get_post_meta

https://wp-types.com/forums/topic/get-custom-field-value-from-specific-custom-post/

Not sure if that has any impact on me using

/**
 * Get different URL from database for this $post_id. (url redirect)
 */

add_filter( 'wccal_filter_url', 'mycode_wccal_filter_url', 20, 2 );
function mycode_wccal_filter_url( $external_link, $post_id ) {

$url_field = types_render_field("wpcf-supplier-link-uk", array("raw"=>"true","separator"=>";"));
	if ( ! empty( $url_field ) ) {
		$external_link = $url_field;
	}

	return $external_link;
}

Could it be because I am not running wpcf-supplier-link-uk through the standard WooCommerce buy now button? As I am hooking in my own button afterwards in the template but using Views plugin to display with shortcodes.

Thanks for your feedback

Hi Eric,

Thanks for a great response, something like that would be ideal.

1) That code didn’t seem to do it, I updated it to contain one of the two fields in use to test so it was like below

add_filter( 'wccal_filter_url', 'mycode_wccal_filter_url', 20, 2 );
function mycode_wccal_filter_url( $external_link, $post_id ) {

	$url_field = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'wpcf-supplier-link-uk', true );
	if ( ! empty( $url_field ) ) {
		$external_link = $url_field;
	}

	return $external_link;
}

but the button showing this custom field still shows the original.

2) Would I need an array in there if I have two custom fields to apply this to?

Thanks for your help. I will try and test a bit more with the above to see if I can work it out.