Title: Basic Custom Fields Question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Basic Custom Fields Question

 *  [daciatakesnote](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daciatakesnote/)
 * (@daciatakesnote)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-custom-fields-question/)
 * Hi There,
 * Apologies in advance for this question, I can’t find an answer which makes me
   think it’s obvious and rudimentary.
 * I’m using [Ben Martineu’s TheColumnist](http://thecolumnist.info/) theme and 
   in his individual posts pages he has “date” and “name” credits for images. I 
   think I need to use custom fields to do this, but I’m totally lost as to what
   to input in the Name and Value fields.
 * The Columnist meta.php page looks like this, Thanks in advance!:
 *     ```
       <div class="meta">
         <ul>
       	<?php //get meta custom fields
           $date = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'date', true);
           $time = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'time', true);
           $price = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'price', true);
           $rsvp = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'rsvp', true);
           $photo = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'photo', true);
           if ($date) {
           echo "<li><span>Date:</span> $date </li>";
           }
           if ($time) {
           echo "<li><span>Time:</span> $time </li>";
           }
           if ($price) {
           echo "<li><span>Price:</span> $price </li>";
           }
           if ($rsvp) {
           echo "<li><span>RSVP:</span> $rsvp </li>";
           }
           if ($photo) {
           echo "<li><span>Photo:</span> $photo </li>";
           }
           else {
           } ?>
         </ul>
       </div>
   
       <div class="meta">
         <p>Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?></p>
         <p><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></p>
         <p><?php the_tags('Tagged with ', ', ', ''); ?></p>
         <p><?php edit_post_link('Edit this post', '', ' &rarr;'); ?></p>
       </div>
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-custom-fields-question/)
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