Custom field url not working

Do you really have spaces between the opening < and the ?php tags? There should be no spaces there. This: <?php, not this: < ?php

I removed the spaces and now the links show as the home page of the website rather than the links i’ve used in the custom field.

Which page, and where on the page are the links shown?

There are 3 custom field links on the home page, one for each homepage box.

For example, the box titled “Data transfer” has a custom field “homepagebox_link” with the value “https://www.costacomputer.com/services/&#8221;.

I have given all 3 boxes different values for the custom field “homepagebox_link” but when you click on any of the image links, they all link to the home page instead of the link i have allocated.

Thanks for your input.

Are the 3 boxes in the main Loop, or is there a second Loop to populate those boxes?

Can you post a few lines of code showing the beginning of the Loop and including the code used to get the custom field? If it is more than just a few lines, please put the entire template in a pastebin and post a link here.

The 3 boxes are in home.php, the code looks like this:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'large'); ?>
		<div class="xs-homepage-box">
			<h2><?php the_title() ?></h2>
            <?php if ($xs_enable_timthumb == "true") { ?>
<?php $homepagebox_link = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'homepagebox_link', $single = true); ?>
              <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/timthumb/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>&h=150&w=280" height="150" width="280" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
	    <?php } else { ?>

        	<a href="<?php echo $homepagebox_link ?>"><img src="<?php echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>" height="150" width="280" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
            <?php } ?>

I think the problem is that $homepagebox_link is only set if $xs_enable_timthumb is “true”. Try moving that line up above the timthumb test:

<?php $homepagebox_link = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'homepagebox_link', $single = true); ?>

      <?php if ($xs_enable_timthumb == "true") { ?>
         <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/timthumb/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>&h=150&w=280" height="150" width="280" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
      <?php } else { ?>
        	<a href="<?php echo $homepagebox_link ?>"><img src="<?php echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>" height="150" width="280" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
      <?php } ?>

Thank you very much, it works perfectly now.