Adding URL metadata to venue

[Ken]

Hi!

Please consider this a feature request: I would like for the information stored about a venue to include its website. Organizers have this field, and I’d find it relevant for venues to track this data as well.

Of course, if it’s already there and I’m just missing it, that would be the easiest fix. 🙂

-Ken

[Barry]

Would Additional Fields help here? You can basically create as many custom fields as you’d like.

[Barry]

Also – if that seems like a working solution, please check out Rob’s post in this thread which demonstrates how you can make it an actual hyperlink.

There is another thread somewhere where I showed a means of converting them to hyperlinks automatically, without wrapping them in HTML, but unfortunately I can’t locate it right now – however that is also definitely possible.

[Ken]

Thanks, Barry! I think I found the threads you referenced: “Additional field with hyperlinks ?” and “Custom field urls not linking“.

Is it correct that Additional Fields become associated with events, not with venues? I tried adding such a field, but when I edit a venue, there is no additional place to input a URL.

-Ken

[Barry]

I’m sorry Ken, you’re absolutely right and I misread your initial post. Additional fields will not work with venues. It would however make a great feature request (someone may even already have suggested it).

I suspect it would also be possible to activate WordPress’s native custom fields in respect of venues, which could be a different avenue worth exploring.

[Ken]

Barry,

Thanks! It seems I did miss something: the proper way to submit a feature request. I’ve now done so.

-Ken

[Barry]

Thanks Ken!

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