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I’m trying to create a link directory using blog entries as the individual links, with a directory by category. I’m using the following tag sequence:

{entry_titles}
<a href="http://{link_url}">{title}</a>
{/entry_titles}

The “link_url” is a custom field, and simply contains the Web link address, entered in the publish form.

But I’m getting a link on the page that is “http://{link_url}”. I know I’m doing something wrong that’s probably a simple fix, but I could use some help.

Thanks.

Can you show us the rest of the tag? I suspect it’s the category archives tag, which doesn’t take custom fields.  You might check out this wiki entry =)

Can you show us the rest of the tag? I suspect it’s the category archives tag, which doesn’t take custom fields.

You’re right, that’s the problem.

I’ll study the wiki entry you pointed me to, thanks.

Hmmmm. . . .

This still isn’t working, even though it seems to fit the syntax of the code example on the wiki entry:

{exp:weblog:category_archive weblog="links" show_empty="no"}
{categories}
<h3>{category_name}</h3>
<p>{exp:weblog:entries weblog="links" orderby="title" category="{category_id}" sort="asc" limit="15" }<br />
<a href="http://{link_url}">{title}</a><br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}<br />
{/categories}<br />
{/exp:weblog:category_archive}

For the link attached to {title}, I’m still getting an invalid URL. (Once again, {link_url} is a custom field.)

Double check that you have turned off automatic linking of URLs.

From the docs:

Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?

When this option is set to “Yes”, any full URLs or email addresses will be automatically formatted as a valid HTML link to the address. If the option is “No” then the URL or email address will be treated and displayed as plain text

Double check that you have turned off automatic linking of URLs.

Thanks, that fixed a formatting issue of the text on the page, but I’m still not getting valid URLs. I tweaked the code, as per the wiki entry, to this:

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="links" style="linear" show_empty="no"}
<h3>{category_name}</h3>
<p>{exp:weblog:entries weblog="links" category="{category_id}"}<br />
<a href="http://{link_url}">{title}</a></p>

<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}</p>

<p>{/exp:weblog:categories}

The field “link_url” is a custom field that simply contains the URL of the site I’m trying to link to.

The page is here: http://www.21stcenturyproject.org/index.php/site/links/

You can see the problem with the links toward the bottom, under the subhead “Links by Category.”

What you are seeing is a URL encoded version of:

<a href="http://www.21stcenturyproject.org/index.php/site/links/http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/">http://www.21stcenturyproject.org/index.php/site/links/http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/</a>

The paragraph tags indicate that the custom field has typographical formatting applied.  If you go into the custom field administration, you will want to set the formatting type to “None”, making sure to check the box to apply it to all existing entries as well.

The paragraph tags indicate that the custom field has typographical formatting applied.  If you go into the custom field administration, you will want to set the formatting type to “None”, making sure to check the box to apply it to all existing entries as well.

That fixed it! Thanks so much. I knew there was something that I was doing wrong, and that was an easy fix, thanks a lot, you guys are great.