Question

I’m trying to echo the key of a custom field (value, such as a URL set while editing a post) back into the document. Here’s the overall code:

        <div id="feature" class="clearfix">

                     <?php  
                        $feature_post = get_posts('category=3&numberposts=1');
                        foreach( $feature_post as $post ) : 
                    ?>
                        <div class="feature_post" style='<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'feature', true); ?>'>
                            <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
                        </div>
                    <?php 
                        endforeach; 
                    ?>

            </div>

Specifically, this is the line of code:

<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'feature', true); ?>

That doesn’t print anything – any ideas?

The custom field on the post is already ‘feature’, there’s no CSS issues or Javascript, it’s just not returning the values.

Answer 1

Please add global $post; before you call get_posts() function and don’t use $post naming in foreach() loop, then see if it works or not! If failed simply use this code instead:

<?php
    $loop = new WP_Query('cat=3&showposts=1');
    if($loop->have_posts()): 
        while($loop->have_posts()): $loop->the_post();
?>
            <div class="feature_post" style="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'feature', true); ?>">
                <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
            </div>
<?php
        endwhile;
    endif;
?>