Using Custom Field on the Frontend
Explore how to access and display WordPress custom fields on the frontend using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Understand how to retrieve custom field values with get_field(), display them with the_field(), and handle image fields effectively to customize your site templates.
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The values of a custom field are stored as post_meta when the post is stored. To access post_meta values, WordPress has a function get_post_meta(). However, since we are using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin, we have access to a function named get_field(). This function is superior to the native WordPress function as it handles the formatting depending upon the field type. The get_field() function fetches the value in a variable while a similar the_field() function displays the custom field’s value. ...