Change excerpt title link so it goes to a custom url?

get_the_excerpt() returns the excerpt, not the title of the post, so the title linking to the post is called by other function. You can also use the_excerpt() to display the excerpt directly inside <p></p> tags.

You can use the_title() to call the title of the post, and it’s not going to be a link to the post unless you href it to the_permalink().

So you can basically make:

<a href="[your desired link]"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php the_excerpt(); >

Don’t have to mention it has to be inside the loop, right?

Thanks that helped a lot.

For anyone looking to do a similar thing, I’ve made it so my front page only shows posts from a single category, and then, in each of the posts in that category (only 3 in my case) I have a custom field called link, which contains the relative url of the page I want the excerpt title to link to, like this:

$customtitlelink = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), “link”, true );
?>
<h1 class=”entry-title fl-l”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”>