Basic get_post_meta call outside loop?

  • saloonstudios

    (@saloonstudios)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve tried several code snippets and they either don’t work for me or I’m not using them correctly-
    Situation is this, I’ve set up a small block for a sidebar that recalls custom fields from a specified post ID. Within the loop it works flawlessly. A sample of that from my sidebar.php is here:

    <?php 	$featuredOne = 342;
		$featuredTwo = 155; ?>

		<ul><li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($featuredOne) ?>"><?php echo get_post_meta($featuredOne, short_name, true) ?></a>

    That’s just a piece but you get the idea. What I want to do now is make a new php file that run that snippet and spits out the html so I can @readfile that php on another website.
    I’m assuming I need to use some variation of $wp_query to get the meta out of the loop but I don’t know what code to use and I don’t know where this new php file will need to live in my directory structure relative to my wordpress install.

    Hopefully this makes sense,
    Thanks-

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  • Thread Starter saloonstudios

    (@saloonstudios)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Ah success. I guess what I meant wasn’t “outside the loop” but actually “outside the framework. I found the code I was missing:

    require_once('../../../../wp-load.php');
require_once('../../../../wp-includes/post.php');

    This seems to work. Is there a security risk in loading the php data and @readfile’ing it onto another page in this manner?

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