Custom Fields with WordPress Pages

[ryanhellyer]

Hi,
I'm having a devil of a time trying to figure out how to list some WordPress pages with associated Custom Fields. This is easy with posts, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to do it with WordPress pages.

So ... there would be a page, which would list all of the WordPress pages and beside each list item would be a code generated via the Custom Field of that page.

Any ideas on how to go about doing this?

[bwdow]

Are you planning to add a dynamic code to all pages? I think you need a special script for this.

[ryanhellyer]

Not to all pages, just to a specific page.

The page will display all the sub pages of that particular page. But the hard bit (or at least the part I can't figure out) is how to add information from a custom field from each page.

[RetroNetro]

Will this assist you: http://codex.wordpress.org/Displayin...m_Select_Query

[ryanhellyer]

Will this assist you: http://codex.wordpress.org/Displayin...m_Select_Query

Er, yep, that looks like it may be able to do it. That also looks hideously difficult but I'll give it a bash.

Thanks for the link BPartch, er, Johhny Gulag.

What's with the name change?

[RetroNetro]

I am going through an identity crisis.

Glad that link was useful, I honestly did not understand what it was saying, well I sorta did but I am not the advanced user it referred to I guess.

[aaronjj]

I've never used this, but it looks like what you want
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/query-child-of-page/

adds an argument for query_posts

Edit: Couldn't you just query all your pages with query_posts('post_type=page') and add some conditional stuff in the loop for the custom field?

[ryanhellyer]

I've never used this, but it looks like what you want
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/query-child-of-page/

adds an argument for query_posts

Thanks

Edit: Couldn't you just query all your pages with query_posts('post_type=page') and add some conditional stuff in the loop for the custom field?

Er, I didn't realise you could use query_posts on pages like that.
If that works, then that is exactly what I need to do.

Thanks
I'll report back shortly with my findings

[ryanhellyer]

Thanks aaronjj

I used your advice to track down the following forum post which solved my problem ... http://wordpress.org/support/topic/155532?replies=3

[ryanhellyer]

I thought this code did exactly what I was looking for. However I've now realised that it doesn't sort the page order according to the "WordPress Page Order", it generates them dependent on the date published.

<?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'page',
	'numberposts' => 4,
	'post_status' => 'publish',
	'post_parent' => 7, // any parent
	);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
//print_r("attachements:" . $attachements);
if ($attachments) {
	foreach ($attachments as $post) { ?>
	<div class="feature-products-boximg" style="background:url('<?php $pictures = get_post_meta($post->ID, "image", true); echo $pictures; ?>');">
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
			<span><?php the_title(); ?></span>
		</a>
	</div>
	<?php
		$the_excerpt = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '1lineblurb', $single = true);
		if ($the_excerpt != '') { echo($the_excerpt); }// if: filename not blank
	}
}
?>

Do any of you know how to modify this so that it generates the pages according to the "WordPress Page Order"?

Thanks

[aaronjj]

Add 'orderby' => 'menu_order' to your args

[ryanhellyer]

Add 'orderby' => 'menu_order' to your args

Brilliant! Thank you very much I'll try that tonight and see how I get on.


There doesn't seem to be a lot of information about this feature of WordPress available. If anyone has any good links to a tutorial or similar I'd love to see them.

[ryanhellyer]

That did the trick perfectly

Thanks aaronjj. Your help is much appreciated