WordPress: How to get custom fields outside the loop

47 Responses

WpDite

Jun 10 2009 10:53

Another nice post. Thanks.

WpCodes.com

Jun 10 2009 16:42

yet another great post by WPrecipes.com

Web Design Beach

Jun 10 2009 16:56

Nice guest post Paul. Indeed very useful. Thanks for sharing.

paul whitehead

Jun 10 2009 17:35

sweet… this is mine….

if you wanta use it in a function then :

function get_my_custom($cf_name = ”, $echo = FALSE) {
global $wp_query;

$content_array = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
$current_id = $content_array->ID;
$output = get_post_meta($current_id, $cf_name, true);

if ($echo === TRUE) :
echo $output;
else :
return $output;
endif;
}

usage:

get_my_custom(‘my_custom_field_name’, TRUE);

will echo the custom field, FALSE will allow it to be assigned to a variable.

TJ Mapes

Jun 10 2009 17:59

Question is… how do you get custom fields to come up in RSS Feeds…? THAT would be an amazing recipe. HINT HINT, WINK WINK

Jean-Baptiste Jung

Jun 10 2009 23:46

@TJ: Must think about that, but that may be easier than you think

WPGPL Team

Jun 11 2009 00:06

Thanks, this is really WOW tips.

zaanrider

Jun 11 2009 09:08

Nice article..thanks

Oliwa

Jun 11 2009 15:30

Great and usefull function! How can i give some default value, if custom field is empty?

Chris

Jun 15 2009 19:28

why do i look here AFTER i spend days trying to do something?

i just put youtube videos on my post’s sidebar using custom fields
but it was a pain in the ass.

here is the exact code i used if anyones wondering. this is the EXACT code, so you might have to hack it slightly.

——————————–

<?php if($Video “” ) >

Ben Pei

Jun 16 2009 18:35

Nicely done here!

takien

Jun 25 2009 08:20

how to choose custom field from spesific category?

Dave

Jul 10 2009 10:28

love this blog!! Thanks again for the great tip!

Seth

Jul 10 2009 18:44

Thank you very much, you are a life saver. This is exactly what I needed and it worked perfectly on the first try.

Mitch

Jul 16 2009 18:04

Hi, I’ve used this code and for the most part it works great, if used the code before my loop and it works perfectly, but after the loop it doesn’t echo anything. Anybody know why this might be?

Vasily

Aug 11 2009 05:42

Thanks, this worked for me!

Twitter Trends

Aug 26 2009 22:59

Once again, very nice post!

CSS Design

Sep 11 2009 07:59

Brilliant. Thank you!

Jennifer

Sep 12 2009 07:33

Thanks a lot for this great article and your great book, too! I still have one more recipe request .
I want to show a alphabetical list of post titles on a static page. For that i have created a custom field for posts in which i put a ‘letter’ for the authors first letter. But i don’t have an idea how to fetch the custom field of the posts in The Loop of the static page and further how to create a query that will return just those posts… Is there any way to do this for me? This would really make me happy.

Ned

Oct 08 2009 03:58

Thank the lord almighty. And.. um… you. I’ve been working on this problem for days now for a client’s site. You saved me – I was close to scrapping the whole thing. Though I’ve never commented before, this site has helped me out many times. Thanks a million, and keep up the good work!

Raphael Essoo-Snowdon

Nov 05 2009 10:49

Thanks for this, I spent a good half of my evening last night trying to work this out!

Wordpress Fan

Dec 22 2009 05:52

I was actually searching for a tutorial on this exact topic and stumbled onto your blog. This was incredibly helpful, I will have to try it out. I run a number of websites using Wordpress and have found it to meet my needs for the most part, but I am never finished learning about what it can do.