Adding simple link shortcode for a single link

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Requested: 2 years and 2 months ago

Hi Matt, sorry to bug you on this again. I went back to add a single link using the shortcode that appears in the far right column of the simple links page. However, when I put that shortcode (e.g., [DiviShortcode id=”29508″]) into the text module, nothing shows up. I love that I can select the links from the standard WP add link tool, but I would prefer to use the shortcodes because all external links appear in at least two pages on my site, so when I have to update a link, I would prefer to do it in simple links. I could create a category for each link, but that seems kind of excessive.

What am I doing wrong?

—Andrew

OnPoint Plugins
2 years and 2 months ago

Hi Andrew,

You may accomplish this by adding a filter to your active theme’s functions.php file:
<?php add_filter( 'simple_links_parsed_query_args', 'sl_one_link', 9, 2 ); function sl_one_link( $q, $o ){ if( !empty( $o->args[ 'one_link' ] ) ){ $q[ 'p' ] = $o->args[ 'one_link' ]; } return $q; }
Then in your shortcode you could specify which link you want to show by adding a custom “one_link” attribute with the link’s id like so

[simple-links one_link="29508"]

Have a great day!

Mat Lipe
akonsta
2 years and 2 months ago

Hi Mat, this worked perfectly. Is there a way that I can use a simple-link shortcode so that the link shows up as an inline link and not as a bulleted list item? I would like to use simple-links for all links on my site, even those that appear in paragraphs. Is this an easy thing to do? I have been through the developer docs and it looks like it should be doable, but I am still pretty new at php.

Thanks again, in advance, for your help.

—Andrew
OnPoint Plugins
2 years and 2 months ago

Hi Andrew,

If you add the following filters, the links will display inline.

<?php add_filter( 'simple_links_markup', '__return_false' ); add_filter( 'simple_links_link_markup', '__return_false' );

Have a great day!

Mat Lipe

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