Post meta in post archive?

[Martinl276]

Hello

How can I show the value of a post custom field (post_meta) in the category (archive) view? Ideally next to the post title or in the byline.

Here is the URL: http://www.betgazette.co.uk/category/football-premier-league/

Thanks in advance
Martinl276

[Martinl276]

Is anyone able to help me please?

[sayontan]

You will have to edit PHP for this. If you want to show this in your byline, you will need to edit the custom/post-header.php file. You will see some code there that creates the categories (around line 66). You will have to add your code there. Without more information about what kind of custom field this is, I cannot say more.

It is best to do this in a child theme.

[Martinl276]

Thank you Sayontan

The Post meta is called "Tip Price (£)" and is just a text field, if that helps?

[sayontan]

You will need the field id rather than the field name. The function to pull meta fields is get_post_meta.

[Martinl276]

Hi Sayontan

I've researched it a bit and everything refers to the post ID, which in this case is 818. I don't know how I can find the field ID?

Thanks
Martin

[sayontan]

If you want to show this for every post, then you cannot pass 818 to the call. You have to do something like this:

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echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'your_field_id', false);

For the field id you have to ask your plugin author - I have no way of knowing that. You could determine it yourself from the "Custom Fields" section in the Edit Post screen (if you don't see the section, go to the top of the screen and select "Screen Options", then check "Custom Fields" there). The drop-down under "Name" will have the field id.

[Martinl276]

Hi Sayontan

I have looked under the custom fields dropdown, but no field ID's there. Also, I have no plugin installed for custom fields. I will see if I can install a plugin that will give me field ID's and submit another reply.

Thanks
Martin

[Martinl276]

Hello again Sayontan

After receiving the following advice:

You can use the Types plugin - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/types/
It comes with [types] shortcode allowing you to add this in a post body or call do_shortcode('[types field="yourfieldname"]');
It comes with a very handy UI as well.

I installed the plugin and the field ID is showing as "wpcf-price", does that seem correct? Or should it be a numerical value?

Thanks
Martin

[sayontan]

I installed the plugin and the field ID is showing as "wpcf-price", does that seem correct?

Yes, that seems correct.