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Displaying Custom Fields in Home Widgets

@coolgates

Participant

15 years, 8 months ago

Is there a way to echo custom fields (those found within posts) in the home widgets (located in bp-blogs-widgets.php)?

e.g. how can I make this work?

<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID,”screenshot_url”, $single=true ) ; ?>

Any help or leads would be greatly appreciated.

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@burtadsit

Participant

15 years, 8 months ago

The recent blog posts widget displays posts from all public blogs which means if you just do get_post_meta() you’ll get the meta from the current blog. Not exactly what you are interested in. There’s a bp template tag to get just about everything else but the meta data. So you have to temporarily:

switch_to_blog( $post->blog_id );

$post_meta = get_post_meta(<your params>);

restore_current_blog();

Then do whatever you want with the $post_meta value you just retrieved.

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