[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#1253

I need help with displaying custom fields in posts.

I used a CSV importer plugin to import a bunch of CSV files for adding posts to my site. The import contains a number of custom fields labelled “custom_field_1”, “custom_field_2”, etc …

I can see the fields and the imported values that correspond to these fields in “Edit Post”.

I have spent hours pouring over Codex information on how to add custom fields to a post and trying to insert <?php the_meta(); ?> into the loop.php file in the Graphene theme so that the custom fields show up after each single post content.

The issues I am experiencing are as follows:

1) I am not able to get the custom fields to show up after the post. I can get them to show up before the post (e.g. category, date, print, etc…), before the title, after the tile, after the comments, outside the post, etc … but not after the post content. Where do I insert this code to make the information show up after each single post?

2) When the code shows up on the page, it shows up as “custom_field_1: 30 minutes custom_field_2: John Smith, custom_field_3: http://moreinformationlink, etc …”

What I would like it to do, is display the information as a list with the key values showing up as:

Duration: 30 minutes

Author: John Smith

More Details: Title of post as anchor link with URL

instead of …

custom_field_1: 30 minutes

custom_field_2: John Smith

custom_field_3: URL (not anchor text link)

How can I do the above? I have been doing my head in trying to figure this out.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thank you,

Martin

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#15022

It looks to me like your site is composed entirely of pages, rather than posts. Am I right?

I am curious because I have always wondered about custom fields as well, but my understanding is that they are unique to posts, and not pages. I am probably wrong about this (the codex is not clear), but hopefully someone here can offer some wisdom.

Ken

[Syahir Hakim]

Syahir Hakim

#15023

Custom fields are not displayed anywhere by default. You would need to manually add them in the theme (or by using a child theme).

Some themes (and plugins) do have built-in custom fields – in fact this is how Graphene provides the per-post and per-page options. Other than those built-in custom fields, you would have to manually add (and style) your custom fields yourself.