Output URL as page title instead of full web address

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September 5, 2017 at 8:45 AM #6878

janek
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Good morning,

I’m trying to setup a URL metabox on the backend of WordPress that allows the user to input multiple URL addresses that then appear on the front end using a shortcode within a html widget. This works fine for displaying the web address however I’d like it to display page title instead. For instance if one of the URLs linked to a youtube video I’d prefer the youtube video/page title to be listed on the front end instead of the full web address.

Is there a simple way to do this or would to require a lot of coding?
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September 5, 2017 at 10:30 AM #6882

Truong Giang
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Hi there,

I haven’t got fully your problem. Can you describe more detail?

September 5, 2017 at 10:40 AM #6884

janek
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So basically I’d like links to display a page title instead of the full url.

For instance if I put http://www.google.com in as URL it would be better if it displayed as Google (page title) instead of the url.

I’ve attached a imgur gallery showing what I have set up on the backend and frontend

View post on imgur.com

Hopefully this is clear. Let me know if you need to know more.

September 5, 2017 at 12:05 PM #6886

Truong Giang
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Hi,

Why don’t you use another field for user to fill the page title?

September 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM #6888

janek
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Is there a way to do this and have that page title override the full web address? For instance the user inputs the url “http://www.google.com” and the page title as “Google” then on the front end it just displays the url as “Google”.

I mainly want to do this to provide a better experience for visitors and minimise the clutter while also making it easy for an author in the back end to add a list of URLs to the page sidebar.

See link for example of the sidebar in action:
https://a15e3113.ngrok.io/academy-sports/tennis/

September 6, 2017 at 9:07 AM #6905

Truong Giang
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I think you must create a new shortcode to turn a url to the format you want. I hope this link can help you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4348912/get-title-of-website-via-link

September 6, 2017 at 12:23 PM #6907

janek
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Pretty much exactly what I want. I’ll have to ask about StackOverlow and see if someone can help me implement it with the short code.

September 6, 2017 at 2:40 PM #6908

Truong Giang
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This is WordPress Shortcode API documentation: https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
I hope it’s helpful for you.
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