Title: [Plugin: Get Custom Field Values] Using quotes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Get Custom Field Values] Using quotes

 *  Resolved [Joe Siegler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joe-siegler/)
 * (@joe-siegler)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-using-quotes/)
 * I just ran across this plugin tonight. It’s quite awesome. After reading a few
   of the remarks from others here, this need to be in the base code. It’s seriously
   kickass.
 * I also use the Genesis Simple Edits plugin. Between the two of them – man, it’s
   some serious power without touching a template. Gotta love that.
 * Anyway, I was running into an issue tonight in trying to implement a code. The
   problem is the custom field I’m using. It’s a URL, and as such, the custom field
   code I”m trying to construct needs quotes, but that makes the plugin not work
   right.
 * Basically, here’s what I constructed, but it doesn’t work right for obvious reasons.
 * `[custom_field field="MLBURL" this_post="1" limit="0" before=" | <a href="" after
   ="" target="_blank">MLB.com Recap</a>" between=", " /]`
 * There any way around this?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-custom-field-values/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-custom-field-values/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Joe Siegler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joe-siegler/)
 * (@joe-siegler)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-using-quotes/#post-2521501)
 * OK, I played around with it a bit. I’m getting close, but can’t figure out the
   right string.
 * Here’s what’s in SOME posts (basically a post I make about a game recap). The
   custom field is MLBURL, and the contents look like this: [http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111025&content_id=25785396&vkey=news_tex&c_id=tex](http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111025&content_id=25785396&vkey=news_tex&c_id=tex)
 * If you want to see exactly what this generates, look at the old version of my
   website (I’m moving from Movable Type to WordPress).
 * [http://www.rangerfans.com/archives/2011/10/game_6_of_world_series_postponed_by_rain.html](http://www.rangerfans.com/archives/2011/10/game_6_of_world_series_postponed_by_rain.html)
 * In the top there’s a link, “Game Recap on MLB.com”, of which the MLBURL custom
   code is used for the link.
 * The closest I’ve gotten with this Custom Field Values is with this code:
 * `[custom_field field="MLBURL" this_post="1" limit="0" before=" | <a href=&quot;"
   after="&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>MLB.com Recap</a>" between=", " /]`
 * Using that code generates the following:
 * [http://www.rangerfans.com/wordpress/2011/10/game_6_of_world_series_postponed_by_rain/](http://www.rangerfans.com/wordpress/2011/10/game_6_of_world_series_postponed_by_rain/)(
   The new in progress test site link).
 * If you hover over the MLB.com recap link, you’ll see it generates a malformed
   URL, but the rest of the code is working, as it displays the text I want, links
   to another window, etc. Just the actual used URL isn’t right.
 * I’ve played with the shortcode syntax a bit, and got the resultant URL close,
   but not right. Anyone know how to get around this? I’ll keep playing with it,
   but if someone has a suggestion, I’d appreciate it.
 * Tkx.
 *  Thread Starter [Joe Siegler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joe-siegler/)
 * (@joe-siegler)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-using-quotes/#post-2521502)
 * Worked it out. One extra quot was causing the problem. This works for me.
 * `[custom_field field="MLBURL" this_post="1" limit="0" before=" | <a href=" after
   ="&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>MLB.com Recap</a>" between=", " /]`
 * I repeat again – this plugin, combined with Genesis Simple Edit from Studiopress
   gives me some stupid powerful really easy customization.
 *  Plugin Author [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * (@coffee2code)
 * WordPress & Plugin Developer
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-using-quotes/#post-2521712)
 * Glad the plugin has been of use to you!
 * As you’ve figured out, quotes that you want to send as part of the value of a
   shortcode attribute (field, before, after, between) need to be encoded. Otherwise,
   the shortcode parser for WP has problems making sense of the shortcode.
 * It’s a good point though, so I’m going to add an explanation to the FAQ to help
   others in the future.
 *  [Clifford Paulick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cliffpaulick/)
 * (@cliffpaulick)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-get-custom-field-values-using-quotes/#post-2521873)
 * or just use single quotes instead of double-quotes for one or the other. for 
   example, if the custom field value has either single or double quotes in it. (
   haven’t tested all scenarios)

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