Title: Using WCK Custom Fields
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Using WCK Custom Fields
* Resolved [Julie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/habannah/)
* (@habannah)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/)
* Hi Eliot,
* I’m using the WCK plugin to create custom post types and taxonomies and everything
works great with the Custom Content plugin, but I can’t for the life of me get
custom fields to display.
* I’m able to display the WCK custom fields on the WCK custom pages using a WCK
php code, but that’s not what I want… I’m using the custom fields specifically
to pull content into other areas of the site, so if I can’t get them to work
with Custom Content plugin, they’re useless to me.
* I’ve been using the regular custom fields instead (so far, and hopefully just
for now), but they’re messy and disorganised and I would really like to be able
to take advantage of the added functionality of the WCK custom fields. And I
really don’t want to use yet another plugin such as ACF just to get more functionality
with custom fields.
* But after seeing all the shortcode options specific to the ACF plugin, I’m afraid
WCK might require the same kind of additional support.
* Could you please check into it to see if WCK custom fields would indeed need
additional support? I don’t want to ask you to actually implement the support
for WCK — that feels like too much to ask — but it would be nice to know whether
I’m defeated or whether I should keep trying. Clearly, it’s not urgent… Lol.
* Thanks so much! I love your plugin 🙂
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/)
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* Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
* (@miyarakira)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/#post-5248018)
* Hi Julie,
* I looked into WCK’s [documentation](http://www.cozmoslabs.com/docs/wordpress-creation-kit-documentation/wck-custom-fields-api/)–
I see what you mean, the plugin uses its own PHP functions to retrieve the fields,
similar to ACF.
* Since it looked fairly simple, I decided to implement shortcodes for it. In the
latest update to Custom Content Shortcode, I added a small module that will load
if the WCK plugin is installed.
* You can use it like this:
* ```
[wck-field meta="metabox_name" name="field_name"]
```
* The repeater feature is quite nice, so I included it:
* ```
[wck-repeat meta="metabox_name"]
[wck-field name="field_name]
[wck-field name="another_field]
[/wck-repeat]
```
* These can be used inside [loop] also.
* For documentation, please see in the Overview tab, under _Support for other plugins_,
there’s a link to the page.
* Thread Starter [Julie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/habannah/)
* (@habannah)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/#post-5248053)
* Eliot, you’re amazing! Thank you so much!! This looks like exactly what I need
🙂 I hope I didn’t cause you too much work…
* I’ll set up a few custom fields with WCK and test it out. If I have any issues,
I’ll let you know — otherwise you can assume the best 😉
* Thanks again, and cheers!
* Thread Starter [Julie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/habannah/)
* (@habannah)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/#post-5248084)
* Hi again Eliot,
* Everything works great on your side of things — that is, I can display the WCK
custom fields using Custom Content Shortcode now 🙂
* Unfortunately, shortcodes don’t work in the WCK custom fields for some reason.
All I see is the `[shortcode]` text rather than the desired output. I tried using
the `textarea` and the `wysiwig editor` (in `source` mode). `Textarea` doesn’t
actually output anything at all, not even the shortcode text. I also tried pulling
the custom field content from another post and from the default current post —
same results.
* I thought I would check with you first, but please let me know if this is something
I should be asking over at the WCK forum instead.
* Thanks!
* Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
* (@miyarakira)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/#post-5248128)
* Hello,
* I looked into it, and found that WCK formats the textarea but doesn’t run shortcodes
inside. I added a new parameter to **[wck-field]** to enable it: _shortcode=”
true”_.
* One thing to note is, the formatting of textarea interferes with the **[loop]**
shortcode, so I made a work-around to prevent it. This means if you want a break
line, you need to insert the `
` tag where you want.
* For example, inside the textarea field:
* ```
[loop type="post"]
[field title]
[/loop]
```
* Thread Starter [Julie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/habannah/)
* (@habannah)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/#post-5248131)
* Excellent! Thanks again for all your hard work, Eliot.
* [Sergio Cabral](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergio-cabral/)
* (@sergio-cabral)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/#post-5248237)
* Hi Eliot, I’ve been playing around with you plugin but I haven’t been able to
make it work for my WCK custom fields. I created a custom type called “survey”,
it has a metabox argument called survey-info and I haven’t been able to access
the metabox-fields. If I use survey-info as the parameter it shows the word Array,
which makes sense, but I haven’t found the proper way to access the different
array elements… please help! 🙁
* Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
* (@miyarakira)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/#post-5248238)
* Hi Sergio,
* The documentation for displaying WCK fields may not be so easy to find – it’s
on the first page at the bottom, where it lists “Support for other plugins”.
* WCK stores metaboxes as arrays, so an additional shortcode or parameter is necessary
to display the fields inside. For example:
* ```
Recent surveys:
[loop type="survey" count="3"]
[field title]
[metabox name="survey-info"]
[field description]
[field another_field]
[/metabox]
[/loop]
```
* You can use the [metabox] shortcode outside loop to display fields from the current
post.
* To display a single field from a metabox:
* ```
[field description metabox="survey-info"]
```
* [Sergio Cabral](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergio-cabral/)
* (@sergio-cabral)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wck-custom-fields/#post-5248239)
* It worked perfectly… a very powerful plugin… Thanks!
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