Title: [Plugin: Mini Loops] Show custom fields
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Mini Loops] Show custom fields

 *  Resolved [realso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realso/)
 * (@realso)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mini-loops-show-custom-fields/)
 * Hi Kailey.
 * This plugin is very useful to me, great job, thanks.
 * My question is about showing post or pages´s custom fields. For example, I define
   a custom field, name: “ages”, value: “25 to 35”. How can I show this “25 to 35”
   value for example below the excerpt?. It would be nice if this were possible 
   with a code like this: [[title]](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mini-loops-show-custom-fields/[url]?output_format=md)
 * [excerpt]
   [mycustomfields names=ages, anothercfield]. This is an idea.
 * In this case I need this for the widget, better if this feature would be available
   for all integration options, this could be a very good plugin´s update.
 * Thanks in advance.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mini-loops/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mini-loops/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Kailey (trepmal)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trepmal/)
 * (@trepmal)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mini-loops-show-custom-fields/#post-2300204)
 * I’ll certainly consider this for the next release – it’s a good idea!
 * In the meantime, you can add this to helpers.php if you’d like
 *     ```
       add_shortcode( 'ml_customfield' , 'miniloop_customfield' );
       function miniloop_customfield( $atts ) {
       	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
       		'name' => '',
       	), $atts));
       	$meta = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), $name, true );
       	return $meta;
       }
       ```
   
 * This would allow you to use `[customfield name=ages]` inside the Item Format 
   box. Note that this version does not take multiple custom fields at once, if 
   you need to grab more than one custom field, simply repeat the code.
 *  Thread Starter [realso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realso/)
 * (@realso)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mini-loops-show-custom-fields/#post-2300302)
 * Excellent! it works!
 * It worked even using multiple custom fields, simply repeating the [customfield]
   code as you indicated.
 * Thank you very much!

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mini-loops-show-custom-fields/#post-2300302)
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