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How To Prepend a Message to the Post Title Using Custom Fields

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Do you want to prepend a message to the post title using custom fields? This snippet that will prepend the string “Sponsored post:” to the post title when the sponsored custom field is set to true.

Instructions

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

add_filter( 'the_title', 'wps_sponsored' );
function wps_sponsored( $title ) {
   global $post;
   $sponsored = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sponsored', true);
   if( is_single() && $sponsored == 'true' ){
       return 'Sponsored post: '.$title;
   }
   return $title;
}

This snippet is similar to the one above. However, this snippet will prepend the value of the sponsored custom field to the post title.

Instructions

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

add_filter( 'the_title', 'wps_sponsored' );
function wps_sponsored( $title ) {
   global $post;
   $sponsored = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sponsored', true);
   if( is_single() && !empty($sponsored) ){
       return $sponsored.' '.$title;
   }
   return $title;
}

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Comments   Leave a Reply

  1. Hello,

    Thanks for this. Is there a way of making it appear separately on the top (or bottom) of the title as opposed to alongside the title?

    Second, is it possible to add a link to the word “sponsored” linking to let’s say another webpage on your website?

    1. To add it to the top, you may want to try something like:
      return ‘
      Sponsored post: ‘.$title;
      to create a line break.

      Adding a separate link would likely require editing the theme.

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