http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/calling-custom-fields-within-posts-issue Support Forum - Topic: Calling custom fields within posts issue en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 15:36:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.kriesi.at/support/search.php http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/calling-custom-fields-within-posts-issue#post-20810 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:11:50 +0000 Dude 20810@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Yes exactly. Many functions require a loop like the_author, the_content, etc. </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/calling-custom-fields-within-posts-issue#post-20717 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:39:26 +0000 Monsoon 20717@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>I think I just realized that you can only query certain data within the loop and not outside unless you use something like<br /> global $wp_query; </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/calling-custom-fields-within-posts-issue#post-20714 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:44:50 +0000 Monsoon 20714@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>ok I think I found why you probably should add this to the functions.php of your themes</p> <p>I added `function get_custom_field($key, $echo = FALSE) {<br /> global $post;<br /> $custom_field = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, $key, true);<br /> if ($echo == FALSE) return $custom_field;<br /> echo $custom_field;<br /> }`</p> <p>and then called the meta to display using <code>&lt;?php get_custom_field(&#39;location&#39;, TRUE); ?&gt;</code></p> <p>unless I am using an older version of a theme that didn t have it I would expect the wordpress query to display mets to work.</p> <p>Something to look into I guess. Can you confirm that only this code would work or is there any other reason why the metas can not be displayed unless you tweak the functions.php?</p> <p>I also tried to display custom fields in Brightbox and they are also being stripped and not displayed...just so you know </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/calling-custom-fields-within-posts-issue#post-20713 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:30:30 +0000 Monsoon 20713@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>I have added several custom fields to a post. I also checked that I could execute php code in the post for that user.<br /> If I use the <code>&lt;?php the_meta(); ?&gt;</code> it shows all the metas but if I try anything with a single field for example lets say I have one meta called: Location and the other Address and I try to display them within the post they do not show at all.</p> <p>Is there something in the template loop that blocks this from working?</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;Location&#39;, true); ?&gt;</code> should be working but there is no output for that query when Location is clearly there is I use <code>&lt;?php the_meta(); ?&gt;</code></p> <p>Any ideas? </p>