[Resolved] Get contents of custom field associated with featured image

[Ali]

Hello,

Thank you for the incredible tool you’ve created. It is truly powerful!

I have a question about custom fields. From what I understand, they seem to only work for posts? I have featured images that have custom fields associated with them (using Pods plugin). I am trying to display information from the media’s custom field in the header on the post page. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks!
Ali

[David]

Hi there,

Thanks for the great feedback.

PODs can get a little complicated. Might be worth having a chat with PODs support – their Slack channel is great:

https://pods.io/support/

[Ali]

Hi David,

Actually it does not have to do specifically with pods. Here is the solution for anyone who might run into this:

I have extended Media to have extra custom fields so that each featured image can have extra information associated with it. One of my custom fields for Media is called ‘media_type’ and I am now calling it like this in a hook:

<?php echo get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->media_type; ?>

[David]

Aah ok – thanks for sharing 🙂

[Author]

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