Title: [Plugin: Display Posts Shortcode] Display Custom Field
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Display Posts Shortcode] Display Custom Field

 *  Resolved [kayotik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannynguyen/)
 * (@dannynguyen)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-display-custom-field/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve copied the Further Customization for Adding Custom Fields from the code 
   on Github, and pasted into my function.php file, but I am getting this error.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’
 * On the line that would state
    `$location = esc_attr( get_post_meta( $post->ID,'
   location', true );`
 * from Github.
 * Any help or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-display-custom-field/#post-2519290)
 * That line should read
 * `$location = esc_attr( get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'location', true ) );`
 * It was missing a ). Can you post a link to the original code on github so I can
   update it?
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [kayotik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannynguyen/)
 * (@dannynguyen)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-display-custom-field/#post-2519291)
 * Bill,
    Thanks for the help! I can’t believe it was as easy as a missing ).
 * Here is the link on Github
    [https://gist.github.com/1209601](https://gist.github.com/1209601)

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 * Last reply from: [kayotik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannynguyen/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-display-custom-field/#post-2519291)
 * Status: resolved