I’m using advanced custom fields to add a few fields to my posts. I want to prepend one of these fields to the content. I think I can do this using filters in wp, but I’m getting an odd result.
My filter to prepend a link to the content.
function add_fields_to_content($content)
{
$acf_library_url = the_field('acf_library_url');
$linkDisplay = '<a href="' . $acf_library_url . '">Link</a>';
return $linkDisplay .= $content;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'add_fields_to_content');
When the above filter runs I’d expect it to prepend a link to my content. For example
<a href="linktoexternalsite.com">Link</a>
... the rest of the content.
Instead, the url is appearing outside of the <a> element and for some reason the URL of the posts is placed inside the href attribute. I think I’m misunderstanding something about how filters work in WP…
Answers:
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Method 1
The problem not it wp hook,
the_field() displays the value of a specific field, so you need to use get_field() instead, which returns a value.
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