Showing custom fields on post page

  • owain182

    (@owain182)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    Once again I’m stuck, and it’s driving me mad!

    I’ve got custom post types set up, and also have custom fields.

    What I want to do is at my custom fields to the bottom of my ‘custom post’ page, in this case individual job vacancies

    I’ve tried this:

    <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Location", true); ?>
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Salary", true); ?>
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Job_Type", true); ?>

    Which doesn’t seem to work.

    Do I need to specify that it’s a post type=’Vacancy’ or something first?

    Thanks

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  • Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    The get_post_meta is coded to only retrive post meta data, not custom types, if you want to fetch data on a custom post type you’ll need an alternate function i think.

    For ref.

    /**
 * Retrieve post meta field for a post.
 *
 * @since 1.5.0
 * @uses $wpdb
 * @link http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta
 *
 * @param int $post_id Post ID.
 * @param string $key The meta key to retrieve.
 * @param bool $single Whether to return a single value.
 * @return mixed Will be an array if $single is false. Will be value of meta data field if $single
 *  is true.
 */
function get_post_meta($post_id, $key, $single = false) {
	return get_metadata('post', $post_id, $key, $single);
}

    That’s how the function currently looks.

    Use get_metadata as the function above does and see if that works (obviously changing post to your custom type).

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