How To Use Costum Field Data in WordPress?
I am a video blogger for http://gamerglitches.com. All of my posts are just embedded YouTube videos. I have a plugin which generates a thumbnail for the video, and the plugin creates a custom field called “thumbnail” and the value is the path (URL)to the thumbnail. I want to somehow create on the front of my blog, a row of latest or recent posts, with a thumbnail, then to the left of that, the post title(just like the home page of gamerglitch.com). However, I don’t know much PHP. I have created a second page template to get started, but I need some help on where to go from there. Pretty much, I need the php code to create a display to show the post title, and thumbnail from a custom field. HELP????????
This might be a bit more than I can type out on here, but I’ll try to get you started.
Give your new template a name so you can link your new page to that template, if you need help doing that check out :
http://www.thewordpressblog.com/theming/creating-a-new-page-template/
Now on to the fun stuff. Let’s get the 5 most recent posts:
global $post; //we need to be able to use the $post variable, so get it queued up
// first lets set a variable with all of the settings we'll need for our query
$args = array(
'numberposts' => 5,
‘orderby’ => ‘post_date’,
‘order’ => ‘DESC’,
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘post_status’ => ‘published’ );
//great, now let’s query the database
$latestposts = get_posts( $args );
//now we have the 5 latest posts, lets display them one by one
?>
foreach ($latestposts as $post):
setup_postdata($post); //this function sets up the post so we can use wp functions like the_title();
?>
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