Question

I have added a field in wordpress posts table named “parent_location”. How to get the value of this field in db front end? I have tried get_post_custom_values('parent_location', $post_id) function but it not working. Can any body help me out?

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Answer 1

You added the field as a new column in wp_posts or added a new metadata entry to a single post? If its to a post then just do a get_post_meta(postID, 'parent_location', true); It its a new column into wp_posts, then should you not be able to just to a standard;

<?php
$my_id = 100;
$post = get_post($my_id); 
$parent_loc = $post->parent_location;
?>

Not sure if that will work, I’ve not tried to get a custom column via that method before. If it doesn’t, just roll your own SQL query; http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb