Pulling custom meta into widget

  • kfawcett

    (@kfawcett)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    Hello all,

    I’m hoping someone can help me. I have a custom meta field in my back end post editor that allows for someone to enter a URL. I am pulling this into the loop to display on the bottom of my posts on the main page using get_post_meta.

    I now want to display that link on the single page posts also. Preferably with a widget. There are a few different widgets that allow php, but I’m not sure if they are able to do what I want. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?

    Here is a snippet of the code that I am using in the loop page:

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();

//Post Link
$post_link = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'soy_post_link', true);

?>

<a href="<?php echo $post_link; ?>">Visit Source</a>

    Thanks in advance,
    Keith

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  • wpua

    (@wpua)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Keith,

    Using “PHP Code Widget” you can do this with such code:

    <?php
if(is_single())
{
  global $post;
  $post_link = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'soy_post_link', true);

  echo "<a href=\"$post_link\">Visit Source</a>";
}
?>

    Let me know if you need something more.

    Thread Starter kfawcett

    (@kfawcett)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you!

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