How to make custom fields not output a list?

Use get_post_custom() instead. This way you can manipulate the response as required with PHP.

Tried that first, but it doesn’t actually display the content of my custome field. Any idea why?

Review the various aspects of Custom Fields.

If you continue this thread please show us the code you used that didn’t work based on huggie’s suggestion.

Sorry, just trying to make sense of how custom fields work…thanks for the help.

The page I’m working on is here: https://wdm.org.uk/localgroups/events/

What I’d like to do is create an events listing page which shows post title and custom field date.

Putting <?php the_meta(); ?> between the <h4> tags below outputs the custom field but as an unordered list. Putting <?php get_post_custom($post_id); ?> between the <h4> tags outputs nothing, ie just <h4> </h4>.

?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<div class="inner">

				<h2 class="eventtitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2><br />

<h4><?php the_meta(); ?></h4>                

                </div>

Please review the example in the link huggie provided as well as the link I provided:

Function_Reference/get_post_custom
Custom Fields

Thanks. Not very good with PHP.

<?php

  $custom_fields = get_post_custom(72);
  $Date = $custom_fields['Date'];
  foreach ( $Date as $key => $value )
    echo $key . " => " . $value . "<br />";

?>

Outputs 0 => 15/03/2009.

How do I get rid of the ‘0 =>’ bit? Got rid of the => but can’t figure out how the 0 is generated.

echo  $value . "<br />";

Thanks a lot, really appreciate it. Got it all sorted now.