Using custom fields to display specific posts

  • jennymckenzie

    (@jennymckenzie)


    15 years, 5 months ago

    I am trying to create a ‘featured post’ section where anchored at the top of the homepage, 3 articles are displayed (thumbnail icon is displayed)

    In my post I have created a custom field called ‘post-icon’ and given it a value of a an image url.

    I have the below code – which is great for showing the 3 most recent articles, but what I want to do is:

    1. check to see if the article has the post-icon custom field and a value for it.
    2. if so, display it in the featured section. If not, don’t display it.

    <?php query_posts('showposts=3&offset=0'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
	<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'post-icon', true); ?>" alt="Icon for Post #<?php the_ID(); ?>" />
</a>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    I’ve tried a number of things but I can’t figure out how to do this.

    Any ideas?

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  • Thread Starter jennymckenzie

    (@jennymckenzie)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Follow up to the above post –

    I figured out that if I add &meta_key=post-icon to the query_posts() so that the code reads like this:

    <?php query_posts('showposts=3&offset=0&meta_key=post-icon'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
	<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'post-icon', true); ?>" alt="Icon for Post #<?php the_ID(); ?>" />
</a>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    It does the trick – for the featured section. But it also carries on into the main loop… so that only these three articles show up at all.

    How do I get ALL articles to display in the main loop and only the desiginated (by custom field) ones show up in the sidebar?

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