then, on my layout I used to echo $field->my_custom_extra_value to get the "URL" of the article,
now I'm just getting the string "[url]" instead of the url of the article.
Can you give me (super) admin and (s)ftp access so I can take a look?
And tell me on what url I can see/reproduce the issue.
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