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How to use a Term Meta Field as a link

You’re not echoing the result, it’s just returning which isn’t output to the page. You should be able to change return $result; into echo $result; and have it display.

Just be aware that as you have your code now, it’s not going to return or echo a proper link.

My guess is you could use something like is found at the link below to do what you need.

https://gist.github.com/petenelson/4020471

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