OK Here’s How I Did It just now:
I made a post and created a “Reading” key in the custom fields area below the writing area of a post. In the “value” I put a book I’m reading.
I then saved the post, and then chose the drop down “select” to choose “Reading” from the “add a new custom field” and input a second book I’m reading into that value field.
So I had two custom keys there, both called “reading” with different values, a different book each.
On the index.php template I put this:
<?php the_meta() ; ?>
in the same div as holds the post title and categories the post is filed under, etc. I have it placed underneath all that stuff so that it shows up last.
I published the post and this is the output I got:
“Reading: Pendragon Cycle, Mansfield Park”
This is what it looks like on the Source of the web page:
<ul class='post-meta'>
- <span class='post-meta-key'>Reading:</span> Pendragon Cycle, Mansfield Park
Posts that have no custom field entries do not show any of the above last code on the source … so only meta data shows up this way in posts that it’s entered as this thread is stating.
I puzzled over this thread and custom fields a few times the last week, and then decided to tackle it today. It took me 5-minutes to finally read, and implement, so I wanted to write this so that anyone else can figure out how to at least put per-post-meta-data in via custom fields.
It was simple. I look forward to seeing further implementation from plugins and new tags!
See it on my post testing Meta
