“URL link” columns are used to render hyperlinks that can be clicked to open pages within your website, or in external websites.
- Rendering rules: If the content of the cells contains a combination of “two sticks” – || – everything to the left of this combination is used as an URL address for the link, and everything to the right as displayed text. For example:
https://wpdatatables.com||Check out wpDataTables
will be rendered as:
Check out wpDataTables
If the “||” combination is not found in the content, the entire content will be used both for the link and as the display value. For example:
https://wpdatatables.com
will be rendered as:
https://wpdatatables.com
- Sorting rules: alphabetical.
- Applicable filter types: text.
- Editor input type: One-line edit, Attachment
- Issues to note: sometimes issues may appear when you’re sorting on URL columns that feature a complicated HTML structure.

Additional settings for URL link columns are available:
- You can configure how the link should be opened, in the new tab or the same tab.
- Set NO-FOLLOW link or not
- Set NOREFERRER link or not
- Set SPONSORED link or not
- This option allows you to display the link as a button.
- You can set the button display text.
- You can set the button CSS class.
- Creating editable tables and filling the table data manually
- Creating non-editable tables from Excel files
- Creating non-editable tables from Google Spreadsheets
- String columns
- Integer columns
- Float columns
- Date columns
- DateTime columns
- Time columns
- Image columns
- E-mail link columns
- Currency/price columns, and other columns with labels
- Formula (calculated) columns
- Coloring and styling columns
- Hiding columns