Adding post meta in search results

Anonymous

#30447

I have customized the search results page to remove post summaries, by copying results.php into my theme template folder, and it’s working nicely. Now, I’d like to add a post meta field (“wp_review_total”) into the search results, so my display would look like:

the_title
** post-meta-field **
the_category
the_tags

Is this possible?

Ross Moderator

#30473

Hey Ken

Do you mean so that you list the current selection for hte wp_review_total field at the top of hte saerch results template?

Then you would look here:
http://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/accessing-search-data/

Or do you mean, you would like to display the value for wp_review_total in your template next to each result?

Then you would need this:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/

Thanks

Anonymous

#30514

It would be for each search result. I tried following the second example, but got empty results:

<?php $wp_review_total_values = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(),
 'wp_review_total', true ); ?>

I’m not a PHP coder, so I’ll try playing with it some more. I may have missed something obvious.

Ross Moderator

#30515

Hey Ken

That looks like the right way to retrieve it – did you try echoing it out?

<?php
$wp_review_total_values = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'wp_review_total', true );

//echo out the values - should be ok because get_post_meta has the 3rd param set to true
echo $wp_review_total_values;

//alternatively dump the object to check whats inside:
var_dump($wp_review_total_values);
?>

Anonymous

#30516

Echoing the values worked! Thanks for your help.

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