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1. rogermarsh
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   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have a loop that will pull the latest post and its three images (in sidebar in custom fields) followed by excerpts for the other posts.

   So, the get_post_meta is looking for the $post->ID to pull the images.

   Question: how do I get the_ID into the first part of the loop or what else can I pass on to get_post_meta?

   Here's the code:

   index.php

   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php $count = 0; ?>
   
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php $count++; ?>
   <?php the_title('<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title_attribute('echo=0') . '" rel="bookmark">', '</a></h2>'); ?>
   <?php the_date() ?>
   
   <?php if ($count == 1) : ?>
   
   <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
   <div class="col-border" id="content-body"><?php the_excerpt_reloaded( 45 ); ?></div>
   </div> <!-- /post -->
   
   <?php else : ?>
   <div class="content-excerpts" id="content-excerpts h2">
   <?php if ( function_exists( 'shorten_text' ) ) shorten_text( 150 ); ?>
   </div>
   
   <?php endif; ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>

   and from the sidebar:

   <?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'lg-img', true); ?>
   <img src="<?php echo $image; ?>" alt="" />
   <?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sm-img-left', TRUE); ?>
   <img src="<?php echo $image; ?>" alt="" />
   <?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sm-img-right', TRUE); ?>
   <img src="<?php echo $image; ?>" alt="" />

   It works just fine in single.php where the loop is simple and has the_ID in it!

   I can see why it doesn't work but I don't know how to go about fixing this.

   Any help would be really, really appreciated.

   Thanks,
   Roger

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