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Get Custom Field Values

Use widgets, shortcodes, and/or template tags to easily retrieve and display custom field values for posts or pages.

By Scott Reilly·Meta·Free
5(4 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years ago
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As of April 2026, Get Custom Field Values is a WordPress meta plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 132K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2004. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 33% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®).

5/54 reviews
1.0K+active installs
132K+total downloads
22 yearssince 2004

Overview

This plugin provides a powerful widget, shortcode (with shortcode builder tool), and template tags for easily retrieving and displaying custom field values for posts or pages.

The power of custom fields gives this plugin the potential to be dozens of plugins all rolled into one.

This plugin allows you to harness the power of custom fields/meta data. Use the “Get Custom Field” widget, the [custom_field] shortcode (which has a post editor sidebar widget to help you build the shortcode), or one of six template tags to retrieve and display custom fields. Find a custom field for the current post, a specified post, a recent post, or randomly. And for the custom field values found by the plugin, you may optionally specify text or HTML to appear before and after the results. If nothin…

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Ratings & Reviews

54 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Just what I needed
by christinapitt76·6 years ago

thank you

easy to use
by CanaC·8 years ago

Just simply highlight what you need from the custom field and add it to the post.
I used the Pods Template and doing great

how to add none text
by michaelpon12·9 years ago

How do I add a none text in the php template using this code <?php echo c2c_get_custom('Gallery'); ?>?

This is nested in the loop.

<ul id="gallery-container">
				<?php
				    global $post;
				    $post_slug = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
					$args = array ( 'category_name' => $post_slug, 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'orderby' => title, 'order' => ASC);
					$myposts = get_posts( $args );
						foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>
					<li data-id="<?php the_ID(); ?>">
						<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
						<?php if (c2c_get_custom('Gallery')): ?>
							<?php echo c2c_get_custom('Gallery'); ?>
						<?php else : ?>
						<?php endif; ?>
					</li>
				<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
				<?php endforeach; ?>
			</ul>

Awesome plugin, works perfectly
by dean_l·13 years ago

Thanks Scott, this one works the magic. Used it on WP3.5 and MU setup and works in loop without any issue. Perfect. very nicely coded. 10+

Download Trends

Today: 2Yesterday: 6This week: 40Period total: 3K

Compatibility

WordPress3.6+ requiredTested up to 6.3.8
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v4.1
46.8%
Other
14.9%
v3.7
11.1%
v4.0
10.1%
v3.9
9.1%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

4.1 (2023-10-08)

Highlights:

This minor release prevents use of unsafe markup in widgets, improves documentation, improves unit testing, and notes compatibility through WP 6.3+.

Details:

  • Hardening: Restrict markup used in widget to safe HTML. Props Satoo Nakano (Patchstack).
  • Change: Ensure show_metabox() only potentially returns true for post screens
  • Change: Add inline documentions for shortcode-related hooks
  • Change: Tweak some formatting in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md
  • Change: Clarify references to shortcode-related hook in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md

…and 9 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Scott ReillyScott Reilly
Plugin Info
Version
4.1
Last Updated
Oct 10, 2023
WP Requires
3.6+
Tested Up To
6.3.8
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
132K+
Added
Dec 21, 2004
Business
Free

Tags

metawidgetwidgetsshortcodecustom fields

Developer

S
Scott Reilly
63 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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