Title: [Plugin: Get Custom Field Values] About sidebar widget
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Get Custom Field Values] About sidebar widget

 *  [Laura C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mokona84/)
 * (@mokona84)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-about-sidebar-widget/)
 * I’m trying to figure out how to set up the widget to have my custom fields appear
   in the sidebar. I guess I can only retrieve a single custom field, so if I want
   to have 3 custom fields in my sidebar I have to load the widget 3 times, right?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-custom-field-values/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-custom-field-values/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * (@coffee2code)
 * WordPress & Plugin Developer
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-about-sidebar-widget/#post-2541147)
 * Yes, the widget only retrieves a custom field according to a specific field/key.
   That field can appear multiple times for a post, or in multiple posts. It currently
   does not support retrieving multiple custom field keys in a single widget or 
   request.
 * Could you provide an example use case where you want to get the values for multiple
   custom field keys in a single widget?
 *  Thread Starter [Laura C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mokona84/)
 * (@mokona84)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-about-sidebar-widget/#post-2541170)
 * Well, in my case I use custom field to show information about songs, like author,
   year etc.
    I’v always used this same plugin to display information within the
   post page, now I wanted to try display them in a sidebar.
 *  Plugin Author [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * (@coffee2code)
 * WordPress & Plugin Developer
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-about-sidebar-widget/#post-2541211)
 * Unfortunately the widget does not currently facilitate being as freeform with
   the output of multiple custom fields for a post as is possible when using the
   template tags within template files (as that’s what you seem to be saying you
   currently do).
 * If you’re already using the template tags within a post/page template, you can
   also use them in the sidebar. There are variations of `get_custom()`, such as`
   get_current_custom()` that work in the sidebar template.
 * But I do understand your use case though. I have plans for additional functionality
   that will make doing what you want to do quite easy. No time estimate on when
   it’ll be ready though. Until then it’s either the template tag approach, or multiple
   widgets.

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 * Last reply from: [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-about-sidebar-widget/#post-2541211)
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