Is that possible to link FCG Image to my preferred URL?

[WyffGoaL]

As title,

I would like to link my FCG Images to my preferred URL. For instance, when a person clicks on the FCG Images, it will go to the particular URL I set instead of going to the exact post/page.

In fact, I want my visitors to be redirected to the preferred URL.

Is this possible to make it working?

Hopefully someone can shed me some green light.


Thanks in advance.

[admin]

The main idea of this plugin to show featured posts/pages of site on main page.
Anyway it can be done...

[WyffGoaL]

How should I get it done if it is possible, hope you could help.

Anyway, thanks for your reply.

[isotropy]

I would also love to know if this is possible. What I would like to do is be able to configure it to lauch a quicktime movie in a separate window. I'm currently using some code to do that on my standard posts, but being able to do this through FCG would be awesome.

Thanks!

[sixthsiren]

I figured this out...

Go to your plugin folder for the Featured Content Gallery and open the file gallery.php in a text editor.

Look for this line of code (it's towards the bottom):
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Read More" class="open"></a>

Replace it with this:
<a href="<?php $key="articleurl"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" title="Read More" class="open"></a>

Save that file and now go to your Featured post. Now under the Custom Fields section add a new field and name it: "articleurl". No quotes, and this is case sensitive.

Now for value enter in the URL you want to point to and hit Update and your done. Make sure to make the link contain the http://

[jcross]

I had a client who wanted this control as well. We solved it this way:

Go to the plugins section of your WP install, and open gallery.php under featured-content-gallery folder.

Look around line 44 and replace the a href just above 2 img tags with this:

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<a href="<?php $key="articlelinkto"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" title="Go to page" class="open"></a>

Do the same around line 69, using the same code above.

What this does is add a new custom field called "articlelinkto" that you can play with. To make use of this, add the custom field "articlelinkto" (no quotes). Use the other box to put a link to wherever you want. Now, when a user clicks the image itself in the gallery, it will jump to this link.

Let me know if I've explained this well enough.

note* updating FCG will remove this feature, and it will have to be redone.

[WPLJ]

The last two posts are the same identical solution, it's just that the name that each person chose to give to the custom field and title is different.

Just wanted to add this clarification.

[Aspire]

Ive read both great responses above, but i thought i would improve on them to make it more user friendly.

Ok, so what if you dont want to make all the "feature" posts to have a 'special' URL? What if you only want certain posts to have a 'special' URL? (or if you forget to specify a custom link)

Well you replace this code:

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<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Read More" class="open"></a>

With...

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<a href="<?php
$link = get_post_meta($post->ID, "link", $single = true);
if ( $link ) { echo $link; }
else { the_permalink(); } ?>" title="Read More" class="open"></a>

To specify the link (URL) - add the custom field link with the full URL to the website.

Please note: You will need to do this in two places. The first is located at line 44 and the second one is around line 69.

What the code asks is:

Get Link > If link is found, post link > If NOT found, post link to post.

Please remember to backup the gallery.php file before editing it.

Great plugin this is. One of the best gallery plugin ive come across.

[Luffer]

I don't understand how to use this, can someone explain to me how I'd use this method to have a single FCG item link to a tag while other items link as normal?

I want the first item on the gallery to go to a tag called "ETC" which will link to that tags page and show all articles with the "ETC" tag. Then the other items in the gallery will go to Page IDs as normal.

Thanks in advance.

[drazek]

all these solutions open in the same page

is it possible to now open that link in the new page?

usually done with _target="blank" in href, but i can't seem to make it work