How to display value of custom fields in page

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I have a custom post type called ‘software’, contained within are various custom fields such as subtitle, price, screenshots, download link, etc. I created a function to allow use of the tinyMCE edit window for some of these custom fields. I have been trying to display these fields on the page but with no success.

The method I’m using is this:

<h1><?php the_title();?></h1>
<h3><?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'subtitle', TRUE); ?></h3>

Here is a link to the page.

Below the <hr/> on the page is a list of all the meta created. The ONLY one of the fields which will display is ‘price’ for some strange reason.

Anyone have any idea what I’m missing?

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Well, you are using:

get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'subtitle', TRUE);

So, you are saying to WordPress to get the meta value of the ‘subtitle’ field and that the returned value be in format of string. See get_post_meta() docu.

To get all meta data of a post you should use get_post_custom() function instead. For example, if you are inside the loop:

$custom = get_post_custom();
foreach($custom as $key => $value) {
     echo $key.': '.$value.'<br />';
}

This will return all meta data of the post. If you want to check, for example, the “price” meta field:

if(isset($custom['price'])) {
    echo 'Price: '.$custom['price'][0];
}

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