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I’ve found the source of the problem mentioned above, just add four lines of code. I’ll submit it as a bug fix, or you can see my post on it here.

Hi Scott, and thanks for the very useful plugin, it’s an important part of a site I’m currently working on. I made some changes to the code, so it also allows Textile and includes a string before the last item in a list (like an “and”). Drop me an e-mail and I’ll send them your way.

Plugin Updated to v1.0

A few new features and changes have been made to this plugin. Users of previous versions of this plugin should take note of the changes:

1. This plugin no longer automatically echoes the result. Instead, it returns the value it would’ve echoed. (See the examples above for the use of ‘echo’.) Why? So that this plugin could gain more versatility by being able to be used as an argument to other functions. For instance, you want customized “more” link text? Change this line in your index.php:

<?php the_content(); ?>

to:

<?php the_content(get_custom('more', '<span class="more">', '</span>', '(more...)')); ?>

If you then define text for the ‘more’ custom field and use the <!–more–> feature of WP, your text will be used for the link. Otherwise, the default “(more…)” will be used. Also, you’ll be able to customize the appearance of the “more” link (thanks to the <span>).

2. Now you can filter your custom field values/meta data via the add_filter() function. The name to filter is ‘the_meta’. The end of the plugin file contains some commented-out examples of filters you could add.

3. An additional argument, $before_last, has been added. If defined ($between must also be defined), then the $before_last value will be used to go between the next-to-last and last items in a list. That way you can now get something like “, B, C, D, and E”

<span class="more"> </span>

I’m actually working on this right now. Check back again after a few days.

Well, presently, it doesn’t seem easily achievable using the plugin. However, I am working on modifications to the plugin that *may* faciliate such a thing. Keep an eye out here or at the WP support forums for when I update this plugin.

There are a variety of ’sticky’ post plugins already available that are specifically geared toward that task… (but I’ll still contemplate using custom fields for it).

Any way to edit this plugin so I can edit it through css. Color, Fonts, things like that. Thank. By the way, this is a very useful plugin

This is a fab plugin & has made it easy for me to do many cool things. Thanx

How exactly did you obtain the plugin file: via the zip file or by saving the .phps file into a .php file? I would need more information about the steps you have taken; I don’t know offhand what the issue might be.

Hi, I’ve tried your plugin in WP 1.3 (alpha 3) and WP 1.2, but I can’t get it to work:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in c:desarrolloappservwwwwordpresswp-contentpluginsget-custom.php on line 137

I’m using this piece of code:
<?php echo c2c_get_custom('publicado'); ?>

The plugin is activated and the custom field is exactly “publicado”
What I’m doing wrong?
Thanks in advance

Hi, thanks for yor quick answer. I’ve installed the new version on WP 1.3 alpha 3 and it shows the meta without problems, But if a post doesn’t use meta, I get this error:

Warning: array_slice(): The first argument should be an array in c:\desarrollo\appserv\www\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\get-custom.php on line 135

I use this code:

<?php echo c2c_get_custom('publicado', 'Publicado por: ', '2004', ''); ?>

I’ve included the third parameter (” for $none) in order to show nothing when no meta are set, but it doesn’t work.

Another question: is it possible to hide an existing meta, I mean, I want to hide some meta in certain posts (a sticky one, using Adhesive plugin, that creates a custom field called ’sticky’). I’ve think about using CSS. is it right?

Thanks again for your great work

It works like a charm! (both, in WP1.2 & WP1.3)
About the second question, forget about that, I was a bit confused, but your last comment has helped me a lot.
Thanks you!

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Hi, nice plugin.

I do have a question though. c2c_get_recent_custom seems to work such that it will get $field from the latest post that has it defined, even if it is not the most recent post in wordpress. For something I’m trying to implement I want it to only get the $field from the most recent post if it is defined, otherwise use $none. Any idea about how I could hack your script (namely the query) to make this the case?

I’m currently working on running my fiction archive with WP and discovered your plugin. Thanks so much for making it! It’s perfect for adding values like ‘pairing’ or ‘fandom’ and worked like a charm - until today. When I went to add some new posts to http://fanfiction.thebookshelf.org/archives/category/lotrips/ I added a custom field, as usual - only today it simply doesn’t show up. It says ‘Custom field added’ but nothing changes, although it stills shows just fine on the older posts. Any idea why that could be?

Great, I look forward to it. Thanks for listening to my idea.

Hi Scott,

I am trying to use your plugin to add custom keywords to a post when displayed in single mode. This would require that it works outside the loop, and that it only returns something when there is a custom field (ie “keyword”) for the post which is displayed.

How could I use c2c_get_recent_custom to do this?

Thanks

Is it possible to use this plugin as a ‘filter’ in order to display only entries that meet a certain criterion for the value of a custom field. If so, how would I go about doing this?

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Holy Shmoly,

This would have to be one of the best keep secrets!.
Bloody handy plugin this one. I was looking for something to get my keywords inserted and I found this..WOW is about all I can say (and I’ve only used to call the meta so far and theres so much more)

Thanks a million for this one Scott

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Oh, and get_custom.php is actually get-custom.php Stupid typos.

ummmm… seems like the pertinent code excerpt got lost.

I was trying to write:

<body id="<?php echo c2c_get_custom('thispage'); ?>">

In order to get a unique body id.

But I only get a:

<body id="">

Rob: Offhand I don’t believe the plugin currently allows what you are looking for. c2c_get_recent_custom(), as you know, works outside the loop, but in so doing it isn’t associated with any particular post. It gets the recent occurances of custom fields. There are other plugins geared toward your request. The WordPress Wiki has two (at the moment) if you search that page for the term “keyword”.

Joey Horne: Depends on how you wish to retrieve posts via their custom fields. If you are looking to modify your main page to show and/or skip posts based on the presence/value of a custom field, that is one thing; if you are looking to pull a list of posts based on custom field value (i.e. for use in a sidebar or some such), that is another. The latter is a feature forthcoming in a later release of this plugin. The former is something that requires you to make some changes to index.php, for which I’d need more info from you to determine what you want done.

Joe: Using the plugin function c2c_get_recent_custom() you can retrieve all custom fields of a given name from all posts. Currently the fields are presented in reverse chronological order (an option allows you to change that so they are presented in chronological order) based on the date of the post that each custom field was associated with.

Rin: Did you echo the result of the function in index.php, like so:
<?php echo c2c_get_custom('mood'); ?>
Without the ‘echo’ nothing will appear on the page. (Earlier releases of this plugin did not require the ‘echo’…)

mquick: c2c_get_custom() only functions within “the loop”; the HTML <body> tag takes place prior to the loop. What you want is doable though. If you’re still interested, I can help you with it.

B.A.R.: I think I catch the gist of what you’re saying. You basically don’t want the custom field stuff to appear on the main page, correct? Assuming that is the case (and always the case), you could wrap the c2c_get_custom calls so they only appear when the post is viewed by itself. Something like this:

<?php if ($single) {
   echo c2c_get_custom('cool_features',... yadda ...);
   echo c2c_get_custom('rating', ...yadda...);
}

Using this plugin for a local install of WP-as-archive and quickly becoming its biggest fan. It seriously rocks.

Just a question, would it be possible to have two functions for the same custom field, but with two different ‘before’ and ‘after’ variables? I.e. -

<?php echo c2c_get_custom('some_field_key', 'before1', 'after1', ''); ?>
<?php echo c2c_get_custom('same_field_key', 'before2', 'after2', ''); ?>

I might need that for another plugin at some point. Thanks!

B.A.R.: Have you tried adding the new custom field and then clicking “Save” or “Save and Continue Editing” for the post instead of the “Add Custom Field” button? That might work for you.

Andrea: I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking… do you mean somehow change the ‘before’ and ‘after’ text depending on something else? If so, yes. For instance, in index.php (if you are running 1.2.x) you could do something like:

<?php
 if ($single) {
    $before = "before1';
    $after = 'after1';
 } else {
    $before = 'before2';
    $after = 'after2'; 
 }
 echo c2c_get_custom('some_field_key', $before, $after);
?>

That would use ‘before1′ and ‘after1′ on the permalink page, and ‘before2′ and ‘after2′ on all other pages (the index, archives, etc).

Unless you really just meant using ’some_field_key’ multiple times, via numerous calls get c2c_get_custom(), but with different before/after text. If so, that is valid also.

If I’ve failed to answer your question feel free to try me again.

Andrea: So you’re all set with the use of the plugin?

As for your WP question, I looked into it and saw where the “problem” is located. The list of custom field keys is limited to 10, as you discovered. It’s hardcoded, so to change it you’ll need to modify a WP file. Look at the file wp-admin/admin-functions.php and search for “function meta_form”. In that function you’ll see a bit that says LIMIT 10. Change the 10 to another number to up the number of keys presented in the list.

Your support request gave me the idea to address that issue, and some others, in a new custom field manager plugin that I already had plans to create soon.

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I got rid of the problem mentioned in the last paragraph above by restricting the display of outside-the-Loop metadata to pages that contain only one post. A kind soul helped me with the necessary PHP stuff.

Fantastic plug-in.

A quick question: I have put in a rather long article on the custom field, and it presents it and all. However, the hard breaks at the end of lines are eliminated, and the whole article becomes one long run-on series of sentences. How could I make it preserve the hard returns? I’ve looked at filters, but it seems somewhat confusing as the documentation in them in wordpress appears a little limited.

Thanks very much for your help.

I just installed this under wp1.5 but I can’t get it to work - nothing is showing up.

I added a key called mood with a value of happy.

<?php echo c2c_get_custom('mood'); ?>

I added that within the lopp but nothing is showing up. Anyone get this to work under 1.5?

I’m trying to use this plugin to automate a user picture since I have 2 authors on my site. Is there anyway I can incorporate the php for the author along with this plugin so that it’ll read which author it is and automatically give it the corresponding image? I got it working with the custom field value, but for that, I’d need to go in and manually set the pic everytime instead of having it automatically read.

WordPress as your personal information manager. Part 3 of 5.
Part 3 in a series of WordPress tutorials: assigning custom metadata to your entries.

Just wanted to say thanks for this marvelous plugin working perfectly with 1.5 and no modification.
Still haven’t figured out the “outside the loop” stuff but I’ve got it inserting titles, texts and pics in my sidebar.

not sure if you think there’s a way to do this. I installed the plugin and got the basic features working to give me a “subtitle” for some pages (not posts, I’m using wp 1.5). what I’d like to do is use this subtitle in the “get pages” loop so that the subtitle also displays in my navigation. any ideas? I tried appending the subtitle in the list pages function, but I get the subtitle of the page I’m on, not of the page in the navigation loop… is there a way to direct the function to check a specific page and not the current one? I’m just getting my feet wet with php and wordpress, but I am a web developer and the basic concepts are the same as other languages I’ve used…

Im using this on my site with WP version 1.5 It seems to work ok except i used it to call my mood plugin. I placed the c2c call code inside my index.php page. I put it in the wrong place and so i moved the code lower so it would show up after my postings and not before. But it doesnt seem to want to move. Even after i moved the code and updated my page its still showing up right beside the date. Ugh! What do i need to do to fix this??

Hi Scott,

I can’t get my custom fields to show up when I search. This is what I have:

Many thanks,

Ross

Ditto the above 2 people. I would also like to know how to include the info stored in the custom fields to show up in the search results.

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I’m looking to use this plugin to display a set of custom field values in each post. Before doing that, i need to have the custom fields be fixed on each edit-form.php page, not simply for a single post. This post looks helpful, except it was for 1.2, and i dont know if the code needs redoing.

I have tried, and still am, to incorporate multiple inputs such as the content etc.. but am not getting very far with it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Amory

EXACTLY what I wanted! I’ll try to make it work!

Kudos to you!

Scott,

I put this code “”);
?>” in my index.php page and when I write a post I insert the “myimage-sml.jpg” in the post. In the images directory there are also the file “myimage.jpg”

I also add the “post_icon” in the custom field when I write the post. But the post and the single page show the same image, instead of the small and large in teh single post. What other steps have I miss?
Thanks

Scott,

Here is the code I put in the index page and what other steps I have to do?

Thanks

Rocky

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I installed your plug-in, seems to work fine (thank you by the way), but now when I go to manage my pages it is blank…I can still write posts, but the manage posts page is blank. Any thoughts?

Scott,

First of all, thanks for writing this. It may save me some time with a current project, but even if it doesn’t I can see all sorts of uses for it.

Second, I want an array of values for a given field so I can play with the data in php. Possible currently? If no, I’ll hack my own. I haven’t gotten into the code yet to see how this works.

Thanks.

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        $mylistens= c2c_get_custom('mylisten');
                    $boollisten=$mylistens[0];
                     if (!empty($boollisten)) {
                          echo c2c_get_custom('mylisten', ' who is listening to  ', '',          
                          'nothing.');
                       } 

my earlier post left on the question mark php stuff and isn’t showing up.

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Hello,

I’m using this plugin in Wordpress (WP 1.5.1.3) for an events site, and it gives loginproblems. Whenever I activate the plugin I can’t logout anymore and only get to see blank pages throughout the site (wp-part => blank login, blank admin, blank post etc.), except for the blog itself. When I remove the plugin from the plugins folder everything is OK again. Also when I upload the file again but leave it deactivated no harm is done. But activating it will close all acces to WP.

Any idea? (I’m not using any other plugin).

Jack

Thank you - this is great.

Well, hmmm… I guess I can’t put great-than or less-than characters into comments, but I was referring to the Post Icon code at the top of this page.

Hi Scott,

In scanning through this page I noticed a request from Joey Horne on October 19, 2004 that is similar to what I want to do.

You later indicated that it could be done, but I have not been able to find any further reference to it.

I want to filter my Comments on my Static Pages. (Not Posts).

For example, I would like users to be able to filter comments based on, say, the Commenting Members zip code (entered in the Custom field at the time of comment) or their own zip code. (Or can this be done dynamically from the WPDB through your plug in?)

But this would also be cool for say Posts to a ‘what’s on’ blog so that user’s could see ‘what’s on’ for a particular Geographical area.

The ability for them to edit a preference to “retain” the filter during subsequent visits through either cookies or your plug-in would be nice - so long as they can override those preferences at any time ‘on-the-fly’ or to change and re-set them.

Aplogize for the long shopping list - seems like your plug-in may help but I am lost on how to make it work.

TIA

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scott-

very nice plug-in. although i’m wondering if the plugin is the way to solve my situation…maybe you can help. i’m wanting to run a poll on certain posts tied to the post…what i do is create my poll which assigns it an id#. i have the poll code inserted into my post-template to display the poll…when i add a post, i select a key named ‘poll’ and then input the value (#) that corresponds to what poll I want to display on that post. i’m using Advanced Poll 2.03.

here’s the line of code I need to be dynamic because if it’s static then the same poll is displaye on all my posts since it’s in the post-template :

echo $php_poll->poll_process(4);

as you can tell above the number i need to have dynamic is the ‘4′…the post i’m working on i select the key named ‘poll’ and input a value of ‘4′…i then put the following code in my post-template.

echo $php_poll->poll_process();

…but the result I get is : Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘poll_process(”);

…but the result I get is : Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mynotary/public_html/wp-content/themes/default/single.php on line 41

finally, i tried :

echo $php_poll->poll_process(echo c2c_get_custom(’poll’));

…but the result i get is : Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO, expecting ‘)’ in /home/mynotary/public_html/wp-content/themes/default/single.php on line 41

any ideas or is custom-fields not the way to get what I need done? is there another way to achieve what i need? i’ve tried many resources for days now and have found no answer.

is there a way to use TWO fields within the retrieve functions? I have two meta keys ‘news source name’ and ‘news source link’ for each of my posts….

Basically for my posts I want to give credit to a news story from the link I got it from, so in my posts template I would it to pull the news source name (if there is one, eg Fox news) and turn it into a link to the article (from the news source link). If there is no name and link then I don’t want anything to show??

Hi - is there any way to pass the value generated by c2c_get_recent_custom into a link that will automatically search WP entries for that value?

(I’ve altered my WP install so it searches custom fields, and I have verified that it works. I can generate a list of values from the c2c_get_recent_custom command, then copy/paste a value from the generated list into search and get the results I want. )

It works “by hand,” but the only thing I don’t know how to do is to make it so that when the list is generated, it automatically creates a link for each item on the list that, when clicked, would automatically perform a search and take the visitor to the search results page.

I understand if this can’t be done or if an explanation is beyond the scope of this forum, but figure it doesn’t hurt to ask. Thanks!

I don’t know if anyone has ever had this problem, or know why this is happening, but when I have inserted custom meta data into my category loop, the appropriate data doesn’t always display.

I’m not a programmer, so I don’t know if this is strange or not. I’m running 3 loops on my categories page that filters posts according to certain custom data fields using two plugins (custom field gui and AH Select custom). That part is working fine (I think).

I also have meta data that displays custom field datausing the plugin. What’s strange is that in some of my posts, the meta value just doesn’t seem to get displayed. To see for yourself, check out:
http://radresearch1.odani.com/?cat=5 and
http://radresearch1.odani.com/?cat=6

Does anyone know how this might happen??

I realize this is outside the scope of this plugin, but… I have a clip blog on my site, meaning that each post has (as a rule) a URL in the body. Right now, I generally post using the bookmarklet and bookmarklet.php, which puts the URL in the body (in my case, using Textile markup). What I’ve been trying to do is find a way to insert that URL into a custom field called clip_url instead. The reason I want to do this is, if I want to change the way the link looks after posting, there’s no easy way to do that right now. Since it’s part of each post’s body, it’s sort of static. Where if it were a custom field, I could simply edit the current theme to change the text of the link, the position of the link, etc…

Has anyone found a way to post custom links from the bookmarklet? I’ve made a few attempts to do this, but so far everything has failed. If I add the custom field by hand in the main post editor, everything works fine with the get custom field plugin… I just can’t convince the bookmarklet post method to stuff this value into a cusotm field for me

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