showing custom fields within get_posts

  • I am desperate… About to start crying ??

    I went through google and word press function reference pages several times, but still cant solve one simple question:

    how to show custom fields if I have the following code (working through shortcode though):

    function slider($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		'category' => ''
	), $atts));
ob_start();
global $post;
$args = array('category' => $category, 'numberposts'=>3, 'order'=>ASC);
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
echo'
<div class="flexslider">
<ul class="slides">
';
foreach( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); 

?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<p class="flex-caption"><?php $id=the_id(); echo get_post_meta($id, 'caption', true);?></p></a>
</li>
	<?php
endforeach;
echo'</ul></div>';
	$content = ob_get_contents();
	ob_end_clean();
	return $content;
}

add_shortcode('slider', 'slider');

    As u can probably see, Im trying to get one custom field for each post in the loop using:

    <?php $id=the_id(); echo get_post_meta($id, ‘caption’, true);?>

    But I get just ID numbers of posts. But if I use just

    <?php echo get_post_meta(666, ‘caption’, true);?>

    I manually insert some posts ID then I get its custom field “caption”.

    I simply dont understand whats going on….

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  • Thread Starter coolstory

    (@coolstory)

    solved:

    <p class=”flex-caption”><?php global $post; $thePostID = $post->ID; echo get_post_meta($thePostID, ‘caption’, true);?>

    Thanks for the clue mate.

    I tried yours but not worked. But i just made some modifications in mine and its worked. Here is the code snippet. May be useful for any one else ??

    $posts_array = get_posts( $argse );
foreach($posts_array as $pst=>$mount)
 {
     $id=$mount->ID;
     echo get_post_meta($id, 'refernce_number', true);
 }
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