jonathanclarke

I’ll try that…

Nope, didn’t work:

Sidebar

global $post;
$side_ID = $post->ID;
global $bpl_post_ID;
echo '<h4>Post ID</h4>';
echo 'the_ID: '.the_ID().'';
echo 'get_the_ID: '.get_the_ID().'';
echo 'bpl_post_ID: '.$bpl_post_ID.'';
echo 'bpl_post_ID2: '.$bpl_post_ID->ID;

Content

global $wp_query;
$bpl_post_ID = $wp_query->post->ID;
echo $bpl_post_ID;
global $bpl_post_ID;

Trying that right now…

OK, here’s what I want to achieve…

I want to display custom field (meta) data in the sidebar when viewing the single post view. The data should be specific to the post viewed.

To get the custom field functions to work I need to feed them the current post ID.

For some reason I’m unable to echo out the current post ID from within the sidebar.

Here is my sidebar code:

global $post;
$side_ID = $post->ID;
echo '<h4>Post ID</h4>';
echo 'the_ID: '.the_ID().'';
echo 'get_the_ID: '.get_the_ID().'';
echo 'bpl_post_ID: '.$bpl_post_ID.'';
echo 'side_ID: '.$side_ID;

Here is my content code:

global $wp_query;
$bpl_post_ID = $wp_query->post->ID;
echo $bpl_post_ID;
global $bpl_post_ID;

The content code displays the correct post ID, but the sidebar code doesn’t.

So the sidebar is in The Loop?

I’m trying to do a similar thing and failing.

Essentially how do you get post specific meta data into the sidebar?

You can get round this by using custom fields and this great plugin:

https://scribu.net/wordpress/custom-field-taxonomies/cft-0-5.html

I did, but I didn’t get a reply…

https://wpguy.com/articles/multiple-tag-category-queries/

Hello!?!

Any suggestions?