[Resolved] Post title with external link

[Lena]

Hi. I have a bunch of blog posts with post format ‘link’. The posts only include a title and an external link. I’m now trying to show a list of the latest posts on the frontpage and I want the titles to link directly to the external site, but instead the links go to the posts. I tried with all different blocks like ‘Latest posts’ and ‘Loop query’ but I get the same result.

[David]

Hi there,

if you use a GB Query Loop block, and use a Headline Block to display the Title with a dynamic link set to the Post.
So that link will go to the single post… we’ll correct that with some code.

With that block selected go to: Advanced > Additional CSS Class(es) and give it a class of: dynamic-title

With that all saved add this PHP Snippet to your site:

add_filter( 'generateblocks_dynamic_url_output', function( $url, $attributes ) {
    if ( ! empty( $attributes['className'] ) 
        && 'dynamic-title' === $attributes['className'] 
        && 'link' === get_post_format() 
    ) {
        $content = get_the_content();
        $has_url = get_url_in_content( $content );
        $url = ( $has_url ) ? $has_url : apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink() );
    }

    return $url;
}, 10, 2 );

That code will check if the post is the link format, and if it is and there is a URL in the posts content it will swap the link for you. If no link is found it will carry on linking to the post.

[Lena]

Great. Thank you. Works perfect. Is there a way I can add target=”_blank” somewhere in the code to open the links in another tab/window?

[David]

Good to hear that.
Add this snippet as well.

add_filter( 'render_block', function( $block_content, $block ) {
    
    if ( 
        !is_admin()
        && 'link' === get_post_format()
        && ! empty( $block['attrs']['className'] ) 
        && 'dynamic-title' === $block['attrs']['className'] 
    ) {
        $block_content = str_replace( '<a ', '<a target="_blank" ', $block_content );
    }

    return $block_content;
}, 10, 2 );

[Lena]

That works perfect, also! Thanks a bunch and happy holidays.

[David]

Glad to hear that!!

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