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I’m trying to create a very simple portfolio weblog. The custom fields are title, portfolio_image, and portfolio_link. For some reason I cannot get a link to work using the {portfolio_link} tag. I’m pretty certain this is very simple, but for some reason I can’t get it to work.

Here’s the code I have:

<div id="mainContent">
   <h1> Portfolio </h1>
   {exp:weblog:entries weblog="portfolio" } 

   <div id="portfolioEntry">
    <div id="rightColumn">
       <a href="http://{portfolio_link}">{portfolio_image}</a>
    <!-- end #rightColumn --></div>
     <div id="leftColumn">
    <h2>{title}</h2>
<p>    {site_info}  <br />
    <a href="http://{portfolio_link}">Visit the site</a><br />
   <!-- end #leftColumn --></div><br />
   <!-- end #portfolioEntry --></div><br />
   </p>

<p>   {/exp:weblog:entries}

This is the portfolio I’m trying to get (fyi…just a test portfolio now so the images and links are screwy). And here is the portfolio I’m getting.

I have to be missing something simple here…this shouldn’t be that difficult. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

HAHA!  I was just about to post a question on the exact same thing.

I have a custom field named ‘site_link’ that is a text input with default formatting set to ‘None’.

In the template, within {exp:weblog:entries} tags, I have the following:

<a href="http://{site_link}class=goto">Go To Site</a>

However this comes out wrong on the front end, and ends up looking like this:

http://www.domain.com”>go to Site

Make sure to turn off “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” here
.

That did it. Thanks a ton Ingmar. That one is definitely going in the memory bank.

Works here too!  Thanks Ingmar.

Say - is there a way to make this a conditional so that it shows up only if the field has something in it?

for anyone else, I was able to accomplish this with:

{if site_link !=''}
<a href="http://{site_link}class=goto">Go To Site</a>
{/if}

Yay! Thanks for the answer, Ingmar. Love this forum.