Get Attachment URL – Using it outside the loop?

Resolved

(@dmrgraphics)

I added a upload custom field to a post that returns a list of PDF files related the the post.

The code I am using, which is working fine, is like this:

<!-- Custom Links for Events Page -->
<div class="event-file-downloads">
<?php
$pdfdownloadlink = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'pdfdownloadlink', true);
foreach($pdfdownloadlink as $pdfdownloadlink) {
$file_attributes = wp_get_attachment_url( $pdfdownloadlink['file-upload'] );
echo '<strong>File Downloads: </strong>';
echo '<a href="' . $file_attributes . '" >';
echo '[ ';
echo $pdfdownloadlink['file-link-name'];
echo ' ] ';
echo '</a>';
}
?>
</div>
<!-- End Custom Links for Events Page -->

What I need to do is call this outside the loop. Most of what I have seen uses something like this to call custom fields outside the loop:

<?php
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
echo get_post_meta($postid, 'customField', true);
?>

I tried adding global $wp_query; to the original code, that didn’t work. I am just not sure how to modify it to get it to work. Any help anyone could offer would be appreciated.

Thanks.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-fields-creator/

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

Thread Starter

David Ruszkowski

(@dmrgraphics)

11 years ago

I guess when I can’t get something to work I should post it here, because usually a couple minutes after that I figure it out…

I added the global query stuff, but had to change $post->ID in my original code to $postid. The one that worked looks like this.

<!-- Custom Links for Events Page -->
<div class="event-file-downloads">
<?php
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
$pdfdownloadlink = get_post_meta($postid, 'pdfdownloadlink', true);
foreach($pdfdownloadlink as $pdfdownloadlink) {
$file_attributes = wp_get_attachment_url( $pdfdownloadlink['file-upload'] );
echo '<strong>File Downloads: </strong>';
echo '<a href="' . $file_attributes . '" >';
echo '[ ';
echo $pdfdownloadlink['file-link-name'];
echo ' ] ';
echo '</a>';
}
?>
</div>
<!-- End Custom Links for Events Page -->

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Get Attachment URL – Using it outside the loop?’ is closed to new replies.

Tags