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Michael Chasse
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April 15, 2013 at 1:37 pm
I’m creating an upcoming event list using custom post types and have moved the page-event_list and single-espresso_event PHP files to my child theme location and made some minor adjustments to get them to display as I’d like.
I have created custom event metaboxes for a event_highlights, event_level and would like to include this information on my custom post types but am having no luck. I have tried using the suggested syntax in my template files:
<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[EE_META type=”event_meta” name=” event_level”]’); ?>
but get no results.
What am I doing wrong and what can I do to make this functionality work?
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Dean
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April 16, 2013 at 4:56 am
Hi Michael,
OK, so that shortcode wont work on anything other than an event.
What you need to do is a little more complex.
In your template (so probably single.php of the theme since you are dealing with posts) you need to add the following or something similar.
$get_ee_post_meta = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), event_meta, true); //get the meta data from the post
$converted_data = unserialize($get_ee_post_meta); //convert it from serialised data into an array so we can get what we need
//var_dump($converted_data); //just for testing purposes
echo $converted_data['event_level']; //echo out the keys value, so in this case the event_level
echo $converted_data['another_meta_key_name']; // and becuase it has all the post meta in a variable we can pull out whatever we need from it.
// etc etc
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Michael Chasse
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April 23, 2013 at 4:41 pm
You saved my day… Messed with this for much of the day before posting and woke up the next morning, with both my questions answered, and by you. Thanks Dean!
I carry this a bit further and outputted the 6 fields in my custom post types. Works like a charm.
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Dean
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April 24, 2013 at 12:46 am
You’re welcome!
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