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Adding simple link shortcode for a single link

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Requested: 1 year and 5 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

  1. Hi Andrew,

    You may accomplish this by adding a filter to your active theme’s functions.php file:

    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

  2. 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

  3. Hi Andrew,

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

    Have a great day!

    Mat Lipe

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