Get post meta WITH formatting?

  • Resolved rjpinney

    (@rjpinney)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    I’m using some custom text fields but the formatting (line/para breaks – itals seem fine) are being stripped out on the front end.

    The code I’m using to pull the field is as follows:

    <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'author_bio', true); ?>

    I’m not sure if it’s a problem with the code or something else; can anyone recommend a way of showing the content of the custom field WITH its formatting?

    Thanks

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    I’m pretty sure all formatting is stripped from custom fields by default. Perhaps you need to consider another approach?

    Thread Starter rjpinney

    (@rjpinney)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    I’m using the advanced custom fields plugin, which provides a full text editor – if I set the style to ‘heading 6’ for example, it will render line breaks.

    I saw somewhere a very brief comment on a similar issue which said that if you use the get_post_meta command, it will strip out formatting, but that there was an alternative way of retrieving the info that might also reflect the formatting?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    I’m using the advanced custom fields plugin

    Then I suggest that you post in that plugin’s dedicated forum via its page in the Plugin Repository.

    Thread Starter rjpinney

    (@rjpinney)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Solved!

    Should anyone else run into this:

    Instead of using:

    <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘YOURFIELDNAME’, true); ?>

    Use this:

    <?php the_field(‘YOURFIELDNAME’); ?>

    That seems to carry over the formatting.

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