Can You Put PHP Code In Custom Field?

  • Resolved soleman

    (@soleman)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    I have a simple line I want to put in a custom field and it just won’t show up. It works when I place the code in single.php – it just doesn’t work when I put the code in through a custom field.

    Here is what I have on my single.php page:

    <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, “ko_text”, $single = true); ?>

    And in my custom field named ko_text I have: <?php echo ddpl_list(1); ?>

    I’ve been searching this site and the net for hours trying to find out if there is a way to do this…. !

    Thanks for your help.

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  • how would I put an else statement in there?

    Here’s the format I use since you can use regular, unaltered html and php with it:

    <?php if (in_category('5')) { ?>
<!-- code here -->

<?php } else { ?>
<!-- code here -->

<?php } ?>
    Thread Starter soleman

    (@soleman)

    Again – sickness! Thanks!

    hmm…. I actually could use some PHP code in my Custom Fields!

    I could really use PHP in my custom fields as well. I tried EXEC-PHP but it didn’t work in a custom field.

    What I am trying to do is display all sibling pages in the sidebar on only a few pages. There is no formula for the pages that I want to use it on otherwise I would use a conditional statement.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    @soleman, I had a similar situation. I wanted to use a different template for certain categories of posts, so I renamed single.php to single-default.php and created a new single.php to test the categories. If it is one of the special categories, use single-in-category.php, otherwise, use single-default.php.

    I originally hard-coded the categories in the new single.php, but as I added new ones, I had to edit the code. My solution was to use https://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-theme-toolkit-admin-menu/.

    This toolkit was easy to integrate with my theme and made it simple to add an option called single_in_category. This contains a comma separated list of the category slugs or IDs. Now I can add or remove a category in the Admin page.

    Here is my new single.php:

    <?php
// single.php is now in single-default.php
// We want to use single-in-category for
// all categories listed in the single_in_category
// option which is set in the Appearance->Miata Club Options panel.
// Uses global $mclub created by themetoolkit in functions.php
global $mclub;
$post = $wp_query->post;
$mycats = array();
if ($mycatlist = $mclub->option['single_in_category']) {
  $mycats = explode(',',$mycatlist);
}

if ( in_category($mycats)) {
  include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-in-category.php'); }
else {
  include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single-default.php');
}
?>
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