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1. gvtexas
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Extensive searching and tweaking failed to make this work. I'm trying to pull one custom field value into a post (the same post that has the custom field).

   CANNOT get any variant of get_post_meta to work. If I use the_meta(), the field shows, but so do all the fields as expected.

   PHP is executable in my post via a plugin (and I have other PHP statements working fine in the test post).

   I've probably tried twenty ways to do this, include these approaches (not all together, one at a time):

   <?php $key="cost"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>
   
   <?php $key="cost"; print get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>
   
   <?php $cost = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'price', true); ?>
   <?php print($cost) ?>
   
   <?php $cost = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'price', false); ?>
   <?php echo ($cost) ?>

   ...and every combination of true/false, print/echo, $value = true, true, etc. etc.

   I've seen a few posts where folks running the same version (2.8.4) are claiming get_post_meta quit working when they upgraded. Is there an issue with this version, or have I just not found the magic version #21? ;-)

   Thx.,
   Gary

2. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   If you echo $post->ID; do you get a valid value?

3. gvtexas
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   No, get nothing.

4. esmi
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Then that's your problem. get_post_meta() can't do anything without a valid id.

5. gvtexas
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Thanks for the direction tip. This code:

   <?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), "Price", true); ?>

   ...finally did the trick.

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