Display custom field in single view

Hello,

I recently received a similar question, so I think it will be good to put a note about it in the documentation. It would be nice to have a simpler solution, but I’ll describe below what’s currently necessary.

To display something for all posts in a post type, you would need to edit the template file in the theme. Usually, they are archive-post.php and single-post.php, where “post” is the name of the post type. If these template files don’t exist, you can create them by copying archive.php and single.php.

In the place where you’d like to display the custom field, you can run a shortcode like this:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[field custom_field]'); ?>

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Since this is a common need, I’ll think about a simpler solution that doesn’t require editing PHP files. I got an idea about “content templates”, which could display something for every post of a selected post type. When I build a working feature, I’ll let you know.

Great,
Thanks for your guidance.
I can continue my work from here.

big thanks,
Awal

@eliot, do you put that code in the single-post.php, or does that code go on the page where you want the custom fields to appear?

Hello,

If you want the field to be displayed for every post, you can put it in single-post.php. If you’d like to display it for a specific post, then you can just put the shortcode in the post itself.

Please let me know if you need more details.

Thank you. I’m using a twenty twelve child theme, and this is what shows for the twenty twelve theme in content-page.php. Could you tell me where your code would be inserted, please?

?>

<article id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?>>
<header class=”entry-header”>
<?php if ( ! is_page_template( ‘page-templates/front-page.php’ ) ) : ?>
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<h1 class=”entry-title”><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
</header>

<div class=”entry-content”>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”page-links”>’ . __( ‘Pages:’, ‘twentytwelve’ ), ‘after’ => ‘</div>’ ) ); ?>
</div><!– .entry-content –>
<footer class=”entry-meta”>
<?php edit_post_link( __( ‘Edit’, ‘twentytwelve’ ), ‘<span class=”edit-link”>’, ‘</span>’ ); ?>
</footer><!– .entry-meta –>
</article><!– #post –>

Or maybe I insert it in the archive.php instead? Somewhere in this area?

/* Start the Loop */
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

/* Include the post format-specific template for the content. If you want to
* this in a child theme then include a file called called content-___.php
* (where ___ is the post format) and that will be used instead.
*/
get_template_part( ‘content’, get_post_format() );

endwhile;

twentytwelve_content_nav( ‘nav-below’ );
?>

<?php else : ?>
<?php get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘none’ ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

</div><!– #content –>
</section><!– #primary –>

Probably what you’re looking for is either content.php and/or content-page.php. In the Twenty Twelve theme, I believe the former applies to posts and the latter to pages.

In either of those template files, you can look for this line:

<?php the_content(); ?>

This is where the post/page content is displayed. So, you can display a field before or after the content.

Eliot, I appreciate you taking the time to try to help me with this. I imagine it’s a little frustrating for you trying to explain to a newbie.

So I added this to a new page:
[loop type=”Jobline”]
[field job_title]
[field description]
[/loop]

And that worked for the first job posting: you can click the link (in this case, “WJE”) from the Who’s Hiring page, and that link takes you to the full description of that job.

But when I entered the second job posting, the link on the Who’s Hiring page results in a message “This is somewhat embarrassing…..”.

Can you please tell me how to enable all new job postings to be displayed? My site is

Thank you!

Oops. The URL to my site was accidentally linked to the words Thank you! Sorry about that. The site is: https://testarea.sdaseattle.org

Forgot to also say, I’m using Advanced Custom Fields and Custom Post Type UI.

Thanks.

Hello,

When I entered the second job posting, the link on the Who’s Hiring page results in a message “This is somewhat embarrassing…..”

So, the link is not pointing to the correct post or URL..

The first thing I noticed when I went to the link, is that it seems there is some setting on the hosting server to make this a development site (not open to public?). For every link on the page, it first goes to a Bluehost page which then links to the page inside the site. So I think this is related to why the site links are not working right. Is it possible to turn off this feature on the hosting?

Another thing I noticed is, that some of the links are going to ?page_id=XX – which means permalinks are not set. This can be changed by going to: Admin Panel -> Settings -> Permalinks, selecting Post Name, and Save.

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Could you please start another support ticket for this? I think the original poster is also receiving each comment, so it’s better if we treat it as a separate topic.