Shortening the displayed URL in a Website field

If your entries have long URLs, they can look bad when displayed in a View. GravityView offers a Website field option named “Shorten Link Display,” which allows you to change a long, ugly URL to a nice-looking one.

• It will take this: https://www.example.com/las8fh/742m.html?ref=product137u
• And turn it into this: example.com

The “Shorten Link Display” functionality is enabled by default for Gravity Forms Website fields in a View.

Here’s how to enable and disable the functionality:

Click the Add Field button #

Select a Website field from the field picker #

If your form doesn’t have a website field, this functionality will not be available.

Click the gear icon to configure the Field settings #

Check or uncheck the “Shorten Link Display” setting #

By default, links will be shortened by removing:

• http:// and https://  ( http://example.com => example.com )
• www. subdomain, if exists ( www.example.com => example.com )
• Subdomains, if exists ( demo.example.com => example.com )
• URL paths ( http://example.com/sub/directory/page.html => example.com )
• Query parameters ( http://example.com/?query=example => example.com )

The link text will look shorter, but the link URL remains the same.

For developers: Hooks to modify the “Shorten Link Display” behavior #

If you would like to tweak how the Shorten Link Display functionality works, there are hooks for that!

You can find the hooks inside the gravityview_format_link() function. You can also override the function by defining it in your theme’s code>functions.php file.

The following hooks are available to modify functionality. All filters have a true default.

• http:// and https:// (or any other scheme, like ftp://)  ( http://example.com => example.com )
  Filter: gravityview_anchor_text_striphttp
• www. subdomain, if exists ( www.example.com => example.com )
  Filter: gravityview_anchor_text_stripwww
• Subdomains, if exists ( demo.example.com => example.com )
  Filter: gravityview_anchor_text_nosubdomain
• URL paths ( http://example.com/sub/directory/page.html => example.com )
  Filter: gravityview_anchor_text_rootonly
• Query parameters ( http://example.com/?query=example => example.com )
  Filter: gravityview_anchor_text_noquerystring

See some code samples below for disabling Shorten Link Display filters.

/**
 * Examples of how to disable each of the "Shorten Link Display" methods for shortening the displayed URL.
 */

/**
 * Strip scheme from the displayed URL
 *
 * http://example.com => example.com
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to strip the scheme. Return false to show scheme.
 */
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_striphttp', '__return_false' );
 
/**
 * Strip www from the domain
 *
 * http://www.example.com => example.com
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to strip www. Return false to show www.
 */
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_stripwww', '__return_false' );

/**
 * Strip subdomains from the domain
 *
 * Enabled:
 * http://demo.example.com => example.com
 *
 * Disabled:
 * http://demo.example.com => demo.example.com
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to strip subdomains. Return false to show subdomains.
 */ 
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_nosubdomain', '__return_false' );

/**
 * Display link path going only to the base directory, not a sub-directory or file.
 *
 * When enabled:
 * http://example.com/sub/directory/page.html => example.com
 *
 * When disabled:
 * http://example.com/sub/directory/page.html => example.com/sub/directory/page.html
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to enable "root only". Return false to show full path.
 */
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_rootonly', '__return_false' );

/**
 * Whether to strip the query string from the end of the URL
 *
 * http://example.com/?query=example => example.com
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to enable "root only". Return false to show full path.
 */
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_noquerystring', '__return_false' );

/**
 * Examples of how to disable each of the "Shorten Link Display" methods for shortening the displayed URL.
 */

/**
 * Strip scheme from the displayed URL
 *
 * http://example.com => example.com
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to strip the scheme. Return false to show scheme.
 */
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_striphttp', '__return_false' );
 
/**
 * Strip www from the domain
 *
 * http://www.example.com => example.com
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to strip www. Return false to show www.
 */
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_stripwww', '__return_false' );

/**
 * Strip subdomains from the domain
 *
 * Enabled:
 * http://demo.example.com => example.com
 *
 * Disabled:
 * http://demo.example.com => demo.example.com
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to strip subdomains. Return false to show subdomains.
 */ 
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_nosubdomain', '__return_false' );

/**
 * Display link path going only to the base directory, not a sub-directory or file.
 *
 * When enabled:
 * http://example.com/sub/directory/page.html => example.com
 *
 * When disabled:
 * http://example.com/sub/directory/page.html => example.com/sub/directory/page.html
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to enable "root only". Return false to show full path.
 */
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_rootonly', '__return_false' );

/**
 * Whether to strip the query string from the end of the URL
 *
 * http://example.com/?query=example => example.com
 *
 * @param boolean $enable Whether to enable "root only". Return false to show full path.
 */
add_filter( 'gravityview_anchor_text_noquerystring', '__return_false' );

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