Make Organizer Email a mailto field

[Sean]

Hi again! I wanted to report an issue I came across while perusing the following knowledgebase post:

Make Organizer Email a mailto field

Link Organizer Email Address to a New Email

I tried adding this code but it did not produce any changes. Is this snippet still valid?

<dd class="email">
<a href="mailto"<?php echo esc_attr( $email ) ?>"><?php echo esc_html( $email ) ?></a>
</dd>

I also tried changing the quote after mailto to a semicolon, as I think that may be a typo in the snippet. But still nothing.

<dd class="email">
<a href="mailto:<?php echo esc_attr( $email ) ?>"><?php echo esc_html( $email ) ?></a>
</dd>

You can view the code in use my staging site in the referenced URL.

I hope I’ve somehow made an error, but if not, hopefully you can update the article with the correct code. Thank you.

[George]

Hey @Karly,

This works for me, I just tested it:

">

Can you post your “system information” as described here? → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/sharing-sys-info/

Thanks,
George

PS – that’s indeed an error in the KB article, which I fixed right before posting this reply. Thanks for alerting us about that error!

[Sean]

Good afternoon George,

Thanks for your reply. I my latter snippet again before trying yours (since they both look identical other than the class), and it worked! Not sure why it wasn’t working previously. Perhaps I had been staring at code too long that day and made a typo similar to the KB article 🙂 In any case, this is all set now.

Best,
Karly

[George]

Thanks for the update Karly – it could’ve been any number of things that led to the delayed success of the snippet, perhaps your server has some simple caching that made it take a while for the file to fully update across the network or something…regardless, I’m glad things work as intended now 🙂

Best of luck with your site!

– George

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