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@raf What did you finally end up going with? I checked your portfolio, and that’s similar to how I would like to style mine…

Nevermind on my last post, we have figured it out. For anyone else in the same situation:

In the post, mark your custom key (for this it will be “link”) at the end of your post, and then in the value type the FULL URL to the link (otherwise WP combines the link (for example https://www.google.com) onto your own URL so it looks like https://www.mysite.com/www.google.com).

In the template, which was what I needed to put the code into, I simply added the following code:

<a href="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'link', $single=true) ?>">Here's the link to the article</a>

The link text won’t change so it needs to be generalized and I plopped that between my style tags and it works like a charm.

so what was your final solution, with the correct syntax and formatting? I’m doing a similar thing. Each post in a specific category needs a link added to it. I have a seperate single.php for this category with a nice custom box to contain this link, and I’d like to add the call to the custom field in that box. When writing the post, I just add the “key” and then the URL to the link. Not certain on how to go about it though, and this sounds like the winner but what was your exact solution?

Open Source is awe inspiring, and whenever I can I like to contribute in some way. But another virtue of this community is that many have this attitude that EVERYTHING should be FREE. As it was already posted, open source and FREE are not the same thing. You have to eat. So if you want to use an open source platform to sell your words, and if people pay for it, that’s great and it really is something I think open source stands for…

I’m interested if you found a workaround for this Richard, I’ve scanned everywhere for something to avoid reinventing the wheel, but nothing pops up. I like the simplebits design too, however I also like the way the themes are presented here on www.remarpro.com (the horizontally scrolling “page” with the anchors…) Please share your progress, if you are interested there are certainly more out there…