Filter post_link to use an external URL

  • Resolved rossberenson

    (@rossberenson)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    I’m trying to filter ‘post_link’, ‘page_link’, ‘post_type_link’. The Permalink Manager Plugin overrides these and prevents me from filtering them. This makes sense since the plugin is now managing the permalinks but I have a case where I want the permalink to link to an external source. I tried using “permalink_manager_filter_default_post_uri’ and then loading the custom ACF field value but the value is sanitized and the external URL breaks.

    I have a URL field for external links. I would like that to be the permalink, automatically if the field has a value. I can obviously check to see if this field has a value, if so, print it, else use the default url. However, I’m trying to avoid that unnecessary code. Is there another hook that I could use? Wherever the post appears, I would like its permalink to be the external URL that was provided. Thanks for any assistance!

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  • Plugin Author Maciej Bis

    (@mbis)

    Hi @rossberenson,

    did you possibly try to register tour new hooks with the priority higher than “99”?

    Example:

    add_filter( 'page_link', 'your_custom_filter', 100, 2);
add_filter( 'post_link', 'your_custom_filter', 100, 2);
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'your_custom_filter', 100, 2);

    Best regards,
    Maciej

    Thread Starter rossberenson

    (@rossberenson)

    @mbis – Thanks for that suggestion. That worked. Sometimes you’re oblivious to the obvious.

    Plugin Author Maciej Bis

    (@mbis)

    No problem @rossberenson ?? I am glad that you managed to get it working.

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