My apologies for just now replying to this question, but it looks like whatever you typed up above in your question got ‘eaten’ by the forum software.
Your question sounds like one that was brought to our Slack Chat, but basically, if you want to customize how the output is handled (ie the link says ‘Read Reviews’), you’ll probably need to do that with a Pods Template and just call that instead with your shortcode, ie:
<a href="{@pod_meta_critic_link,esc_url}">Read Reviews</a>
Save the above as a Pods Template ‘Meta Critic Link’
And then in your site instead of calling [pods field="pod_meta_critic_link"], call it with [pods template="Meta Critic Link"]; as long as you’re in the current post, it should call that template above which will call your custom field.
Hey Jim,
Thanks for the reply but I still cant get this working. I’ve set up the template as you’ve described above but seem to have the following issues:
I’m using the below in the template:
Read Reviews
but firstly it seems to try and add the link to my own website URL instead as an external URL i.e. http://www.domainname.com/podinfohere
secondly it’s not actually using the value in the pod and instead shows http://www.domainname.com/%7Bproduct_meta_critic_link%7D
thirdly as shown above it’s displaying ‘product_meta_critic_link’ instead of ‘pod_meta_critic_link’ which is the name of the pod
I’m wondering if this might be something to do with me setting up the pod itself incorrectly. Any further thoughts of guidance will be appreciated
Thanks
Ben
I’m going to suggest you coming over to our Slack Chat during our office hours (I’m around most of the days on Monday and Friday and in the mornings during the week). It’s easier to help if we can do a back and forth conversation and it looks like the forum software is eating most of your replies.
https://pods.io/chat/
No, problem. I’ll try to drop by on Monday
Thanks
Ben
