Thread Starter
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(@zilli)
Thanks for your help.
I created the follow shortcode and put it on functions.php, but it doesn’t return anything.
//Applications list short-code
function jb_applicant() {
global $wpdb;
$custom_fields = get_post_custom(2171); //2171 is the post_id that I'm trying to gather the data from
$my_custom_field = $custom_fields['my_custom_field'];
foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value )
echo $key . " => " . $value . "<br />";
}
add_shortcode('applicant', 'jb_applicant');
Any idea what could be?
Thanks
Couple of changes. Needed an opening brace on the foreach line and a closing one before the add_shortcode.
Also, in order to show the output where the shortcode is placed, it needs to be returned, not echoed.
Give this version a try:
function jb_applicant() {
global $wpdb;
$custom_fields = get_post_custom(2171); //2171 is the post_id that I'm trying to gather the data from
$my_custom_field = $custom_fields['my_custom_field'];
$op = '';
foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value ) {
$op .= $key . " => " . $value . "<br />";
}
return $op;
}
add_shortcode('applicant', 'jb_applicant');
Thread Starter
Old
(@zilli)
Thanks, but it still returning nothing.
Perhaps the post ID or the custom field name is not correct.
Try adding some test text to the output. Instead of this:
$op = '';
use this:
$op = '<h2>This is a test</h2>';
Thread Starter
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(@zilli)
I can see the test text.
I’m sure that there are records on post_id 2171. Just to be sure, the get_post_custom( ), will fetches meta_key and meta_value’s data from that given post_id, right?
That is correct, but this line:
$my_custom_field = $custom_fields['my_custom_field'];
selects only those meta_keys equal to ‘my_custom_field’.
Is that what you want?
Well, I can’t explain it. The code worked for me on my test site, and the test text proves that it is being called.
The only two other things that I can see that could cause the problem are the post_id and the meta_key value.
Thread Starter
Old
(@zilli)
Sorry to restart this thread, but now I can explain things better. So, let me try one more time.
I’m trying to create a loop to read all the meta_value records from a given post_id. The idea is to gather all the meta_value’s data from wp_postmeta table related to post_id number and print them as a list. But so far, I couldn’t make this work. The issue is my ‘custom_fields’ variable. There I need to put my meta_key. But I have several meta_key per post_id. For example, the post_id 2171 has data2,date3,data4,data5.. data19 as meta_key. So, how can I get this working?
function jb_applicant() {
global $wpdb;
$custom_fields = get_post_custom(2171);
$my_custom_field = $custom_fields['data2'];
$op = '';
foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value ) {
$op .= $key . " => " . $value . "<br />";
}
return $op;
}
add_shortcode('applicant', 'jb_applicant');
If you want to print all meta_keys except selected ones, try this:
function jb_applicant() {
global $wpdb;
$except = array( 'except-1', 'except-2' );
$custom_fields = get_post_custom(2171);
$op = '';
foreach ( $custom_fields as $my_custom_field ) {
foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value ) {
if (in_array($key,$except)) continue;
$op .= $key . " => " . $value . "<br />";
}
}
return $op;
}
add_shortcode('applicant', 'jb_applicant');
Replace ‘except-1’ etc with keys to skip.
