Title: custom fields in the loop
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# custom fields in the loop

 *  Resolved [ejm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llizard/)
 * (@llizard)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-in-the-loop/)
 * I am not a programmer and only know enough about coding to get myself in trouble.
   I have searched as best I can through this forum and stared at [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)
   but am having difficulty wrapping what’s left of my mind around multiple loops(
   which is what I’m guessing is required).
 * I am using “Get Custom Field Values” plugin and have styled them with a border.
 * This is what I have on index.php
 *     ```
       <?php // the_meta(); add custom fields
       _e('<ul class="post-meta"><li></li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('date', '<li>', '</li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('Publication', '<li><strong>', '</strong></li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('Title', '<li><strong><big>', '</big></strong></li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('Author', '<li>By ', '</li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('URL', '<li><small>(<a href="', '">Read the complete article</a>)</small></li>');
       _e('</ul>'); ?>
       ```
   
 * and the following CSS
 *     ```
       ul.post-meta {border:1px solid #000;}
       ul.post-meta li {padding: 2px 10px; display:block ; }
       ul.post-meta span.post-meta-key {font-weight:bold;}
       ```
   
 * At present, this is what appears in the coding if none of the custom fields are
   filled out.
 * `<ul class="post-meta"><li></li></ul>`
 * which means that the border appears even though none of the fields have been 
   filled out – making the page somewhat unsightly, not to mention adding extraneous
   coding….
 * How do I go about encoding this so that nothing at all appears _unless_ one of
   the custom fields are filled out?
 * I know that it must be an “if” “else” but that’s as far as I’ve managed to grasp.
   Something like
 * _if custom field(s) filled out _
 * echo custom fields list coding
 * else
 * echo ”;
 * I hope my questions make sense. I’d very much appreciate any help that can be
   offered. Thank you.

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 *  Thread Starter [ejm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llizard/)
 * (@llizard)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-in-the-loop/#post-608986)
 * Excuse me for replying to myself. I have blundered onto the solution and am posting
   it here, just in case someone else has similar difficulty understanding the codex.(
   I have no idea if the solution is the most efficient but it is working…) Here
   is the coding I have used:
 *     ```
       <?php // with regards to the_meta(); add custom fields
       if (function_exists('c2c_get_custom')) { ?>
   
       <ul class="post-meta">
   
       <?php echo c2c_get_custom('date', '<li>', '</li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('Publication', '<li class="publication">', '</li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('Title', '<li class="publication_title">', '</li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('Author', '<li>By ', '</li>');
       echo c2c_get_custom('URL', '<li class="publication_URL">(<a href="', '">Read the complete article</a>)</li>'); ?>
   
       </ul>
   
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 * with the following CSS
 *     ```
       ul.post-meta {border:1px solid #000;}
       ul.post-meta li {padding:2px 10px; display:block;}
       ul.post-meta li.publication {font-weight:bold;}
       ul.post-meta li.publication_title {font-weight:bold; font-size:large;}
       ul.post-meta li.publication_URL {font-size:small;}
       ul.post-meta span.post-meta-key {display:none;}
       ```
   
 * Of course, this will do nothing about styling any extra custom fields added on
   the fly but I do not anticipate adding any others.

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