Advanced Custom Fields: Link Picker Field Plugin

This add on for the already established Advanced Custom Fields plugin adds a new field type called ‘Link Picker’ which allows the user to enter a URL, or select from the existing pages. It is a thin wrapper around the link selector included with the WYSIWYG field editor.

This plugin is forked from the plugin of the same name hosted at https://github.com/BIOSTALL/ACF-Link-Picker-Field. This version is hosted at https://github.com/ahebrank/ACF-Link-Picker-Field and issues and PRs should be submitted there.

Note: Advanced Custom Fields must be installed for this add-on to work.

Compatibility

This ACF field type is compatible with:

• ACF 5
• ACF 4

ACF 4 support is deprecated, and new plugin features will generally not work with ACF 4.

Usage

When outputting the link selection on the front end, you will have three object elements available:

• url – The URL of the page
• title – The title of the link, if entered
• target – Will be either a blank string or ‘_blank’, depending on whether the user has ticked the box for the link to open in a new window/tab.
• postid – Not available as part of wp_link, this is an ajax hack to attempt to look up the post ID of a selected link. This will return 0 if the post ID was not found.

Code example:

$mylink = get_field('mylink'); var_dump($mylink); 

Outputs:

array(3) { ["url"]=> string(31) "http://mysite.com/selected/url/" ["title"]=> string(10) "Link Title" ["target"]=> string(6) "_blank" ["postid"]=> int 2231 } 

1. Copy the acf-link_picker folder into your wp-content/plugins folder
2. Activate the ‘Advanced Custom Fields: Link Picker’ plugin via the plugins admin page
3. Create a new field via ACF and select the Link Picker type

Installation Instructions

1. Copy the acf-link_picker folder into your wp-content/plugins folder
2. Activate the ‘Advanced Custom Fields: Link Picker’ plugin via the plugins admin page
3. Create a new field via ACF and select the Link Picker type

1.2.8

• Some additional compatibility checks for ACF 4 (disable post ID lookups to suppress JS errors)

1.2.7

• Enqueue wysiwyg assets if needed (thanks, dmarkowicz)

1.2.6

• Bugfix: revert setting empty values

1.2.5

• Multiple fixes from Jontis00, including:
  • Set a default (empty) value for the field
  • Refactor the post ID lookup
  • Add sv_SE translations

1.2.3

• Make the link class a little more distinctive — thanks, dmarkowicz

1.2.2

• New handlers for the updated link picker with WP 4.5.

1.2.1

• Attempt to add a post ID ($link[“postid”]) to the field data

1.2

• Automatically update the link title when clicking on a link. This functionality differs from the WYSIWYG link picker (which assumes highlighted text) but should be consistent with expected behavior of an ACF field.

1.1.2

• Add NL translation support from vjanssens

1.1.1

• Add PT translation support from alvarogois
• Bump compatibility information

1.1

• Bump version, preserve _blank target if set from philmprice

1.0.3

• Translation support from m0n0mind

1.0.2

• Forked by ahebrank and refactored, updated for compatibility with WP 4.2

1.0.1

• Solve bug with repeater fields (credit to Willy Bahuaud http://wabeo.fr/)
• Solve problem with empty values (credit to Willy Bahuaud http://wabeo.fr/)

1.0.0

• Initial Release.