Odd Thing With the_meta() tag

  • Lorelle

    (@lorelle)


    18 years, 12 months ago

    I was experimenting with the_meta template tag and this is what I got for results:

    <!-- Testing Meta -->
    <ul class='post-meta'>
    <li><span class='post-meta-key'>Fred:</span> Fred says boo</li>
    <li><span class='post-meta-key'>keywords:</span> internet,internet on airplanes,airplanes,air,web,surf,star,star aviation,boeing</li>
    <li><span class='post-meta-key'>Sally:</span> Sally says boo</li>
    <li><span class='post-meta-key'>_tc_post_encoding:</span> wptexturize</li>
    <li><span class='post-meta-key'>_tc_post_format:</span> wpautop</li>
    </ul>

    I added the Fred and Sally lines as part of my test of the_meta() tag, and I have a Keywords and Text Control Plugins installed, which looks like the rest of the Custom Fields info…but why should that information show up in the post-meta?

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    “which looks like the rest of the Custom Fields info”

    They don’t just look like them, they are just like them. There’s no difference in a custom field’s meta data, no matter if you or a plugin added them—especially to the_meta(), which is a little on the dim side for discriminating this sort of thing. For extracting information based on key or value data, I’d look at what plugins are out there:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Meta

    Thread Starter Lorelle

    (@lorelle)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    Thanks. Is there any hope of expanding the_meta() tag in the future, so it can be more…discriminating?

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    There’s always hope. It spring eternal, you know.

    joelwalsh

    (@joelwalsh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    OK, I think I understood what you said but I’m hoping there’s a clearer resolution to this problem by now.

    For this page:

    http://upmarketcontent.com/web-page-content

    I am trying to use a custom field in the webpage title (<title></title>) so I don’t have to rely on the post title.

    The value of the custom field is: “Web Page Content Writing, Development, SEO, Design”

    But here is what it comes out as:

    <title><ul class=’post-meta’>

    • <span class=’post-meta-key’>webpagetitle:</span> Web Page Content Writing, Development, SEO, Design

      • &ltli&gt<span class=’post-meta-key’>_wp_page_template:</span> landing.php
      </title>

      Where did all that other stuff come from? There are no other custom fields on that page.

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