Question

I’ve created a custom post type in WordPress, and in the single post template, I’m successfully pulling in my custom data using the get_post_custom() function.

But inside The Loop on the list of posts, the function doesn’t work and comes back with an empty array.

Here’s what I have:

<?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'web-design', 'posts_per_page' => 10 ) ); ?>

<?php $i = 0; ?>

<?php while ( $loop->have_posts() && $i < 3 ) { $loop->the_post(); ?>

<article class="project-link <?php echo 'num' . $i ?>">
    <div class="pad">

        <?php $project_info =  get_post_custom(); ?>

        <?php 

        foreach ($project_info as $i => $values) {
            print "$i {\n";
            foreach ($values as $key => $value) {
                print "$key => $value\n";
            }
            print "}\n";
        }

        ?>      

        <?php echo $project_info['url'][0]; ?>  

And I don’t have anything coming back at all.

Does anyone know why this doesn’t work? It works fine in the single post template, why not in the loop?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It seems as though the problem lies with the database. I noticed that if I deleted certain posts, then it would start working fine. I’m yet to find out what’s wrong with these posts though, if I delete them and then re-create them, they’re usually fine.

My advice to anyone with this problem is try moving some of your posts to the trash and see if it starts working.