Have I misunderstood dynamic hyperlinks
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Hello Peter. Sorry if this is a silly question.
I have read the doco on Dynamic hyperlinks and I think I’ve done what it says, and accordingly on the page I’ve linked to, you can see that there’s a new column added to the table, at the end, labelled ‘About’. Click on that and it’s supposed to take you to a page about the composer in question (currently, the only page that exists is for Ignace Joseph Pleyel, played at 11:21am on 10 May 2021. All the other links take you to a 404 page).
So: I’m happy with that functionality, whereby the ‘About’ link takes you to different pages, depending on the name of the Composer/Artist in the row. Works fine.
But… what I had *hoped* would happen would be that the composer’s name in the ARTIST column of the table would **itself become a hyperlink**. IE, that a reader could click that composer’s name and be taken to the page about that composer, without there being a separate ‘About’ column to do the job.
Is that sort of thing possible (I could obviously alter the data in the table to be a hyperlink at the point of entry, but it stops being dynamic at that point!) Is such a feature even possible? And if it is, and it exists, does it have another name than ‘Dynamic Hyperlinks’?!
As I say, if the problem exists between this user’s ears and keyboard, please feel free to move on to more important problems!
Best wishes as ever,
HowardThe page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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Try this in the dynamic link column, define the entire hyperlink. I don’t know your field names but this is an example. In this example The column will display the value of $$branch_slug$$
<a href='https://$$branch_page$$$$branch_id$$' />$$branch_slug$$</a>Sorry: by way of follow-up:
Suppose my artist’s name is Alphonse d’Eve. WordPress turns that name into a page permalink of ‘alphonse-deve’.
Unfortunately, the dynamic link being created in my table points to
"https://.../Alphonse d'Eve/", which therefore doesn’t match and I get a 404.I’ve tried editing the WordPress permalink to add a “
& #3 9;” where the apostrophe should be, but it keeps stripping it out… is there a way to process it out of the dynamically-created link so that I get a match to the apostrophe-less page, but still display the apostrophe in the ‘slug’?I realise that this is wandering far off the path of what the WP Data Access plugin can reasonably be asked to do!
Regards
HJRI’m not sure what Howard is after either. Perhaps an example would help.
Secondly. Howard, you wrote about a problem with accented and apostrophes in names. That is major problem in web sites. Not confined to WPDA, MySQL or WordPress.
I avoid the problem by never using special characters in any ‘technical’ reference. all lowercase and no spaces. However, in your case, that may force you to add extra columns with the URL text. I’m not telling you what to do, just what I do.
wordpress deliberately does the same thing for the slug. The only easy solution is another column.
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