Title: [Plugin: Custom Field Template] insert custom code into a template Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Custom Field Template] insert custom code into a template * [zandercent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zandercent/) * (@zandercent) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/) * this doesn’t seem to appear anywhere in the instructions – but I thought people might like to know that if you put this in your function.php * ``` // Get Custom Field Template Values function getCustomField($theField) { global $post; $block = get_post_meta($post->ID, $theField); if($block){ foreach(($block) as $blocks) { echo $blocks; } } } ``` * you can use this * `` * to insert the output from a custom field into a template… * Just thought I’d share. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Carlo Rizzante](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlorizzante/) * (@carlorizzante) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1458834) * Yeah, it works fine, it seems to me. * Thank you very much! * [MartyThornley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martythornley/) * (@martythornley) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1459080) * Thanks for that idea. Posting my little follow up… * I wanted to just get a single field and also return the value so i could do what I want with it in the template, instead of echoing within the function. * ``` function getCustomField($theField) { global $post; $field = get_post_meta($post->ID, $theField, true); if($field){ return $field; } } function getCustomFields($theField) { global $post; $fields = get_post_meta($post->ID, $theField); if($fields){ return $fields; } } ``` * Then in the template you can * ``` echo getCustomField($theField) ``` * or * ``` $fields = getCustomField($theField); foreach ($fields as field { // do stuff - ex: echo $field } ``` * btw – for use with the [MultiEdit](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagely-multiedit/) plugin, the fields take names ‘multiedit_’ followed by whatever name you gave it… ‘multiedit_MyFieldname’; * [MartyThornley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martythornley/) * (@martythornley) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1459081) * One other note. When using the file upload for Custom Field Templates, all it stores is the ID# of the attached file. You would have to get the value of that file (a number) then use the built in wordpress function to get the attached file by its ID. * Or you can use this with the above functions… * ``` function get_custom_file($field) { $ID = getCustomField($field); $file = get_attached_file( $ID ); return $file; } ``` * [MartyThornley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martythornley/) * (@martythornley) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1459082) * One last update, I swear… * So I realized get_file_attachment returns the PATH not the URL. Why? I don’t know. What am I going to do use include($file)??? Makes no sense. * What I want is the file’s URL so I can use an image or add a download… * Below is everything. I cleaned up the function names too so they are consistent: * ``` function get_custom_field($theField) { global $post; $field = get_post_meta($post->ID, $theField, true); if($field){ return $field; } } function get_custom_fields($theField) { global $post; $fields = get_post_meta($post->ID, $theField); if($fields){ return $fields; } } function get_custom_file($field) { $ID = get_custom_field($field); $fullPath = get_attached_file( $ID); $filePath = str_replace (ABSPATH, '', $fullPath ); $fileURL = get_bloginfo('siteurl') . '/' . $filePath; return $fileURL; } ``` * [fluotonic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fluotonic/) * (@fluotonic) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1459118) * Thanks a LOT for all of this ! It will save me so much time ! I don’t understand why it’s not specified on the plugin’s page. * Anyway thank’s again ! * [Trevor Gehman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorgehman/) * (@trevorgehman) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1459120) * Yes, thanks for doing this! * I added another function based on yours, in case you wanted to return an array of files, instead of just a single one: * ``` // Returns array of URLS of custom field files function get_custom_files($field) { $ID = get_custom_fields($field); foreach($ID as $i) { $files[] = get_bloginfo('siteurl') . '/' . str_replace (ABSPATH, '', get_attached_file($i) ); } return $files; } ``` * [senica@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senicagmailcom/) * (@senicagmailcom) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1459127) * Geez! Thank you so much! I spent hours trying to figure out a problem with Page. ly MultiEdit. It seems that with 3.0 (for me anyways) $Globals were not being registered for the multiedit fields. When I did a var_dump for the multiedit Globals, I got nothing. * Anyways, this fixed me right up * [mmtrav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyleung/) * (@mikeyleung) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1459140) * You might also want to mention, for those who love to avoid PHP code, like me, that you can use the shortcode [cft format=0] to output the code in the options panel. I couldn’t find the spot where it said to use format=0! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘[Plugin: Custom Field Template] insert custom code into a template’ is closed to new replies. * 8 replies * 7 participants * Last reply from: [mmtrav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyleung/) * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-field-template-insert-custom-code-into-a-template/#post-1459140) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics