November 19, 2010

Use Custom Fields with WordPress?

Do you ever use custom fields with your posts and have trouble getting them to display? Well here’s a quite little line of code to add into the post loop to get them to display.

[html]<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘custom field name here’, true); ?>[/html]

It really is that simple!!

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AJ Morris

AJ Morris is an accomplished product leader with over 10 years of experience driving innovation and growth for web hosting, cybersecurity, and SaaS companies. He excels at building high-performing teams, developing compelling product roadmaps, and executing go-to-market strategies that delight customers. AJ has a proven track record of leveraging customer insights, market trends, and emerging technologies to deliver market-leading products. His core competencies include product strategy, cross-functional team leadership, agile methodologies, customer and market analysis, go-to-market planning, and partnership development.

4 responses to “Use Custom Fields with WordPress?”

Gavin

August 20, 2011

Hi AJ. It may be simple in wordpress, but how do I get them to work in Headway? I’ve been trying for a over a week, as a newbie user of Headway to get an idea of incorporating custom fields into the Headway Theme, and particularly how to use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. I thought I’d try Headway for a new client site and as its a learning curve, some aspects are proving problematic.

Any help appreciated with what appears a fantastic tool.

Thanks – Gavin.
AJ Morris

September 6, 2011

Hi Gavin,

It’s actually used the same way. You just need to use a PHP leaf.
Ahmed Hussein

November 12, 2013

Hello AJ. I’m using Headway 3.5.5 and new to wordpress. How and Where would I use this code?

Thank you
AJ Morris

November 14, 2013

Add a custom code block inside the Visual Editor in the wrapper you wish, and add that line of code. Make sure you replace the first argument with whatever you called your custom field.