Show field value in sidebar widget

Resolved kris
(@krisyoungboss)

9 years, 1 month ago

I’m using this plugin to create event posts through an Events category.

I want to have an upcoming events area in my sidebar that include the event date but when I do that, the values from the meta don’t show, just the post excerpt. Does anyone know how to do this?

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Plugin Author Anh Tran
(@rilwis)

9 years, 1 month ago

Hi @krisyoungboss,

It depends on how you get the event and its fields’ values to show in the widget. If you write your custom widget, you can use the rwmb_meta function to retrieve the custom fields’ values.

Please look at this for more details: https://metabox.io/docs/get-meta-value/

Thread Starter kris
(@krisyoungboss)

9 years, 1 month ago

Hi @rilwis,

Thanks for responding so quickly! I get the event values with this (date value for example) <?php echo rwmb_meta('date'); ?>

Would I write the custom widget in functions.php?

Plugin Author Anh Tran
(@rilwis)

9 years, 1 month ago

You should not write widget in functions.php. I recommend write each widget in a separated file for better management, and include them in your functions.php.

Thread Starter kris
(@krisyoungboss)

9 years, 1 month ago

Ok that makes sense. Do you have any docs on how to write widgets and include the event and its fields’ values in them?

Plugin Author Anh Tran
(@rilwis)

9 years, 1 month ago

I think there’s nothing special in writing such a widget. You just need to follow this guide: https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API

You probably need to create a custom query to get your posts (events): https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

Then just use rwmb_meta to get fields’ values.

Thread Starter kris
(@krisyoungboss)

9 years, 1 month ago

Awesome! Thanks so much for all your help I really appreciate it 🙂

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