Title: Looping custom fields from defined post
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Looping custom fields from defined post

 *  [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * (@drding)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looping-custom-fields-from-defined-post/)
 * I’ve recently come to a project where using custom fields would be pretty handy.
   It’s for a restaurant and if I can get this right, I could use this bit of code
   for a few different sections of the site.
 * I’m using the Magic Fields 2 plugin and right now it’s awesome, except for when
   it comes to displaying the fields I’ve created. Here’s where I’m getting pretty
   lost.
 * For example, I have a post called “Specials” and that has a grouping called “
   Menu Item” and that group has two fields called “Name” and “Description”. Basically
   name serves as the menu item name, and description will be a small blurb about
   the food item.
 * Here’s the code in my theme for this section right now:
 *     ```
       <div id="specials">
       <?php
       $query2 = get_post(28);
       $title = $query2->post_title;
       $itemname= get_post_meta($post->ID, 'menu_item_name', true);
       $description = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'menu_item_description', true);
   
       ?>
           <div id="specialstitle"><?php echo $title; ?></div>
           <div class="stripebackbrown">&nbsp;</div>
           <div id="specialslist">
       <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
   
       echo '<span>'.$itemname.'</span>';
       echo '<p>'.$description.'</p>';
   
       endwhile;
       wp_reset_query();
       ?>
           </div>
   
       </div><!-- end specials-->
       ```
   
 * Now there is a very good chance what I’m doing in the above code is completely
   wrong, if it is, please let me know. What I’m experiencing with the above code
   however is it’s pulling the very first group for that post.
 * So instead of something like:
 * Tomato Soup
    description text here
 * Turkey Sandwich
    description text here
 * Greek Salad
    description text here
 * I’m getting:
 * Tomato Soup
    description text here
 * Tomato Soup
    description text here
 * Tomato Soup
    description text here
 * So while the above code is technically working, it’s not working properly at 
   the same time. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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 * [custom fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-fields/)
 * [loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop/)

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 * Last reply from: [Drding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drding/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looping-custom-fields-from-defined-post/)
 * Status: not resolved

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