DUPLICATE: Link Type URL -> Dynamic Data: Output not as expected

Bugs
1

I’ve created this function:

function product_url_suffix($post_title) {
    return str_replace(' ', '-', strtolower($post_title));
}

Which I insert into the output of either External URL or Dynamic Data:

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This is what I insert:
https://site.example.com/{echo:product_url_suffix({post_title})}

My expected result:
https://site.example.com/post-title-here

My given results:
https://site.example.com/posttitlehere

It would appear that Bricks is interfering with my echo statement and manipulating the URL link?

2

WordPress slugifies the post titles in URLs automatically, isn’t it?

What is the need for this custom function?

3

Hi @xalodile ,

Please may I know why don’t you use {post_url}?
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Regards,
Jenn

4

Because the post_url or even site_url does not outline what I need. I need the link to navigate to a different url, with the same slug as the current page.

Current page:
https://site.example.com/layer/post-title-here

Navigate to page:
https://site2.example.com/cake/post-title-here

Thus https://site2.example.com/cake/ would be static, but post-title-here needs to be generated dynamically to reflect the slug of the current post url. It can’t be static too because this relates to a Bricks template that will be used to all posts.

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5

Unfortunately not in this example. If I input https://site.example.com/layer/{post_title}, then the output becomes https://site.example.com/layer/post title here (notice the spaces).

If I do https://site.example.com/{echo:strtolower({post_title})}, that will output https://site.example.com/layer/posttitlehere

It’s strange behaviour. strtolower() is only supposed to ensure lower case, but in addition to this function WP seems to be removing the spaces. str_replace() seems to do the same, perhaps WP seems to remove the spaces before the function does its job?

6

Hi @xalodile ,

Understood.

Please do not use nested dynamic tags in the attributes area.

It’s a bug, you can follow this link WIP: Dynamic data is not rendered on links titles for update.

As a workaround, please create a custom function to output the post slug.

Example:

function my_post_slug() {
  $post = get_post( get_the_ID() ); 
  if ( is_a( $post, 'WP_Post' ) ) {
    return $post->post_name;
  }
  return '';
}

Then use {echo:my_post_slug}

Regards,
Jenn

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7

Excellent, thanks for the workaround!