Add custom field?

Dear @doobeedoo,

Thank you for reaching out and sharing your insights for BetterLinks. We appreciate your thorough investigation into finding the best solution for your needs.

Regarding your inquiry about adding custom fields to affiliate links with BetterLinks, it’s important to note that ThirstyAffiliate and PrettyLinks uses WordPress’s default post creation method, which involves creating their own post types (e.g., thirsty-link or pretty-link) for managing shortened URLs.

However, BetterLinks operates differently. Instead of relying on WordPress’s post creation method, we store link data directly into our own database table to generate short URLs. Consequently, BetterLinks does not create posts with a specific post type, which is why it’s not available for selection in the ACF plugin.

The good news is that we’re currently in the process of developing native support for adding custom fields within BetterLinks. Once this feature is implemented, You’ll be able to add custom fields directly within BetterLinks without the need for the ACF plugin.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to enhance BetterLinks and provide you with a seamless experience. If you have any further questions or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Best regards,
Pial

Hello Pial,

Thank you for your answer

Good to know that you are currently developing native support for adding custom fields in BetterLinks

Do you know when this will be available? (I’m asking this because if it’s in more than 1 or 2 weeks, I’ll unfortunately have to choose another solution)

Best regards

Hello again @doobeedoo,

You will be glad to know that Our Custom Field features is already completed and it will be released soon. Please take a look how it works : https://d.pr/v/WwLM9i

You can try our Beta version from here : https://d.pr/f/vl81lO

Hope it helps
We would really appreciate some feedback from you
Looking forward to hearing from you

Hello,

Thank you for the beta version with custom fields!

Feedback:

• In “Manage links” admin menu, list view, it’s hard to reach for the “Edit” button on the right + it’s very close to “Visit” and “Delete” – maybe the title of the link could be clickable and lead to edit too? We use the “Edit” feature 100 times more often than “Delete” feature, so the edit icon could be more obvious and easier to reach. The “Delete” icon can even be hidden inside the edit popup, and not on the list
• When editing a link, not sure if the checkbox “Use custom fields” is useful. I’ll have to click it 100% of the time to toggle them. We can assume if someone adds custom fields, they want to use them
• In my own use case, I add 2 fields: “URL of the affiliate platform (URL affi)”, and “Private notes”, and:
• I’d like to be able to display the “URL affi” in the list view columns (and make it clickable) – I was able to do this with ACF on Lasso Simple URLs, not sure if I can find a code to add it here in Better Links? https://imgur.com/a/6cwWvjY
• “Private notes” is a textarea, not a one-line-field – is it possible to be able to choose the type of the custom fields?
• It would be better to use WP core post type, why create your own system? This deprives us of all WP options …
• In the links list, list view, the dropdown “Rows per page” offers the options 10 15 20 25 30 – we expect something like 10-25-50-100-200 instead

Keep up the good work
Kind regards

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by Doobeedoo.

Hello again @doobeedoo,

Really appreciate your feedback. Please provide us some time to reevaluate our feature with your amazing feedback

We will provide you with an update soon

Really appreciate your support and understanding

Thanks

Great! Will be happy to see the new version it’s ready

Hello,

Are custom fields released officially already?

Can we have a featured image for each link directly in the link edit panel (that is not FB/Twitter)?

Hello again,

Our Custom Field Feature is not released yet, We are still doing some fine-tuning It will be released soon. We will keep you updated.

Regarding your other question, I am assuming you are asking about our Customized Link Preview, Please check this Doc here : https://betterlinks.io/docs/configure-customize-link-preview/

We support all the well known social media outside our list as well.

If you face any issues regarding that, since it’s a Premium feature as per WordPress Forum Guidelines Please contact us Directly from here

Thanks

Hello,

Those are still pre-sales questions, not premium support requests

About the featured image: I’m not talking about social media images, but image to display in the website, like a post or page have a featured image

I’d like to use your plugin to manage affiliate links, but also to display info cards of the linked products in the website – for this, each link needs a description and a featured image (and other fields like I wrote above, URL of the affiliate platform for each link, Private notes for each link)

I’m still wondering if something like this, even it’s simple, would be possible with BetterLinks in the near future

Kind regards

Hello there,

My apologies for the confusion.

Currently we don’t have the Features for creating Info cards with BetterLinks, However we have plan on bringing this feature soon.

Thanks for your support and patience
Hope you understand

Hello Pial,

It’s great that you have plan on bringing the info cards in Better Links soon!

Any rough idea of when it will be released?

Hello again,

We will notify you when it is implemented.

Please note that our development team is continuously working on improving our plugin and we already have lots of amazing upcoming new features in the development, so it may take some time. We don’t have an exact time frame at this moment.

Hope you understand.

Thank you.

Hello again @doobeedoo,

I’m really glad to share some exciting news with you regarding the BetterLinks plugin.

Thanks to your invaluable feedback, we’ve been hard at work implementing improvements to make BetterLinks even better suited to your needs. Here’s a rundown of the enhancements we’ve made based on your suggestions:

1. We’ve improved the “Manage Links” admin menu to make navigation and editing easier than ever. Now, all link titles are clickable, allowing you to edit content directly from the list view with ease.
2. The “Use custom fields” checkbox is now pre-checked by default, saving you the hassle of toggling it manually each time.
3. We’ve listened to your feedback regarding the “Rows per page” dropdown in the links list view. Now, you’ll find a more user-friendly range of options: 10, 30, 50, 100, and 200.

Here’s a preview : https://d.pr/v/kgAqsF

We’re genuinely excited about these updates and can’t wait for you to experience them firsthand. I invite you to update to the latest version of BetterLinks Version-1.9.0 at your earliest convenience and explore these enhancements yourself.

More features are coming very soon. As always, your thoughts and opinions are incredibly important to us. If you have any further feedback or questions about the latest version, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Thank you for being an integral part of our BetterLinks community. Here’s to even more seamless link management together!

Really looking forward to hearing from you

Warm regards,
Pial

Hello again?@doobeedoo,

Sorry for the inconvenience.

We did not hear from you since our last conversation.

Did you have a chance to look into our latest updates?

We are waiting for your response.

Thank you.

Hello,

Glad to see that you released improvements to your plugin and that my feedback helped!

Titles of the links are now clickable, it’s great, and custom fields is checked by default, it’s more usable

Unfortunately, those are very small changes, it’s not using WordPress native custom fields system so it’s not usable ?? and no info cards