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1. heffernan.courtney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm calling this portion of my template into my sidebar, to display some featured posts. It is not displaying any of the post meta data. Can I use custom fields in my sidebar? I tried putting the same code into single.php and everything worked fine...

2. heffernan.courtney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The code:

   <?php
   
   //The Query
   query_posts('category_name=featured_book');
   
   //The Loop
   if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); 
   
   $book="book_image";
   $author="author_name";
   $buythis="buy_this";
   
   $bookimage= get_post_meta($post->ID, $book, true);
   $writebookimage='<img src="' . $bookimage . '"/>';
   
   $author= get_post_meta($post->ID, $author, true);
   $writeauthor = '<h3>'.$author.'</h3>';
   $buylink= get_post_meta($post->ID, $buythis, true);
   $writebuylink='<a href="' . $buy_this . '"/>';
   
   ?>
   
   <a href="<?php echo $buylink; ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Buy the book <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
   <?php the_title(); ?>
   </a>
   <h2> <?php echo $writeauthor; ?></h2>
   <?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'book_image', true) ) : ?>
           <img class="thumb" src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'book_image', true) ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
   
   <?php endif; ?>
   <?php endwhile; else: ?>
   <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
   <?php endif; ?>
   
   <?php
   //Reset Query
   wp_reset_query();
   
   ?>

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