the_meta()

  • Resolved 3Plumes

    (@3plumes)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    I’m building a custom theme, and have a custom field for storing text on pages. To display the text in the page templates, I use <?php the_meta(); ?>

    However, when I’m displaying the blog, single.php, 404.php and so forth, nothing is displayed since these aren’t used for pages.

    Is there a way that I can display the custom field values (from pages) randomly? Get_post_meta maybe?

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  • Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    You can probably find the answer here.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields

    Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Looks like this might do it

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-custom-field-values/

    Find a custom field for the current post, a specified post, a recent post, or randomly.

    Thread Starter 3Plumes

    (@3plumes)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the ideas Jonas. I unfortunately ran out of time and had to do something that was far from ideal:

    <?php
	if(is_home()) {
		echo 'custom testimonial goes here';
	} elseif(is_single()) {
		echo 'custom testimonial goes here';
	} elseif(is_category()) {
		echo 'custom testimonial goes here';
	} elseif(is_archive()){
		echo 'custom testimonial goes here';
	} elseif(is_search()) {
		echo 'custom testimonial goes here';
	} elseif(is_404()) {
		echo 'custom testimonial goes here';
	} else {
		the_meta();
	}
	?>

    I’ll revisit your suggestions later and see if I can get them to work.

    Thanks

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