Adding a fuction to wordpress theme to bypass/replace premalinks

Question

Looking at Cssremix.com

when you hover over a item you can see the "Views" function I'm assuming they are using a plugin that links with the post views but when clicked the item redirects not to the post but to a website/site used

Answer 1

This plugin gives you the post views. To filter a link you can hook into certain filters, such as post_link or the_permalink.

Here are some docs:

• Plugin API usage
• Filter reference

The usage would be something like this:

add_action('post_link', 'do_custom_link');

function do_custom_link($url, $post) {
  $external_url = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'external_url', true);
  if($external_url) {
    return $external_url;
  }

  return $url;
}

This would get the external url from a meta field stored with the post, called external_url. You would define that meta field using the custom fields UI when you create the post through the admin pages.

Answer 2

Thanks so much Jesse...going to read through this again!