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Posted by Amir Siahpolo
Amir Siahpolo
1,354 Points

How to Build Wordpress Themes : Level 3. The video, "Displaying Custom Posts and Fields in a Template"

I am not sure how the content "Stop Visual Pollution", "Dr. Waltz", "Smells Like Bakin", and "Shirts 4 Mike" is populated within WP and the PHP.

Here is a screen shot: http://cl.ly/image/3Z2p2Y0B3G0W

My rendered file is not displaying this.

1 Answer

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

make sure that you are calling wp_query and you are using the correct the_field() function with parameters. the_field() is how that bit of content you mentioned is being displayed.

Amir Siahpolo
Amir Siahpolo
1,354 Points

Here is a screen shot:

http://cl.ly/image/1C0B2N0T1m3h

I am using wp_query and I use the_field. Why do we pass the arg 'description' into into the_field ('description') and there is no arg being passed into the_title( )? I checked my custom fields in WP and this is the 'Work' group of custom fields for WP. There isn't any field called title. I went back in the video to see if I missed a step somewhere and could not find anything.

<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ;?>"><?php the_title() ;?></a></h3>
<?php the_field( 'description' ); ?> <hr>

Thank you.