Your posts table will automatically link certain columns to the relevant single post page, category archive page, or author archives. Use the Links option to disable them, or to have more fine-grained control over which columns are formatted as links.

Please note: links within the main content, excerpt or custom field columns are not controlled by the Links option. Please see our article on adding custom links for more information.

By default, your table will create the following links:

• The ID, title and image columns will link to the single post page.
• The categories, tags, and any taxonomy column will link to the relevant term archive page (if search on click is disabled.)
• The author column will link to the author archive page.

Setting the links option

This option is available when you add or edit a post table and enable the 'Advanced' toggle for a column.

The link behavior differs depending on the column:

• ID and Name - The only option is to either enable or disable the link to the single post page.
• Image - You can enable or disable the link. Set the behavior on the plugin settings page, which lets you choose whether clicking the image opens it in a lightbox (the default) or links to the single post page.
• Categories, tags and taxonomy columns - You can enable or disable the link, and also choose whether clicking it will filter the table by the selected term or take the customer to the relevant archive page.

Links for custom fields

You cannot control custom field links using the links option. Please see our article on custom links for more information.

Search on click

By default, clicking on a category, tag or custom taxonomy term in the table will search (i.e. filter) the table by that value. If you are NOT using the lazy load option, then you can also filter the table by clicking on an author.

This is a quick way of filtering the table if you have lots of posts.

You can disable this 'Search on click' feature so that when someone clicks on a category, tag, author or custom taxonomy term, then they will be taken to the relevant category/tag/author/taxonomy archive instead. This is only available as a shortcode option.

Tip: This option will only work correctly if your theme includes archive pages for categories/tags/custom taxonomy terms.

Can I link the title column to an external URL or document download?

Yes! You can do this by using Posts Table Pro with the free Page Links To WordPress plugin. This plugin lets you add a URL to any page, post or custom post (e.g. to a PDF in your Media Library or a page on an external website). When someone clicks on a link to view the page/post/custom post, they will be taken to this URL instead.

For example, a lot of Posts Table Pro users find this helpful when creating a WordPress document library with downloadable document links in the table.

Adding other types of links, such as downloadable documents and custom fields

The above instructions tell you how to control the links to the single post page. You can also use Posts Table Pro to create other types of link, for example links to a third party URL or a downloadable document. You can add these links as clickable text, or you can even add clickable buttons, images or icons.

Please see our separate article on how to do this.

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