More creative uses for custom fields

10 Apr, 2008 MarkB Page,Single

So your client has a small area of their site that displays their contact numbers. It’s one of those small features that most sites have, but its also a feature that you don’t want to be bugged with when it changes or when they need something edited. Here’s a simple guide to how you can use custom fields for this.

Choose a page on their site that you know will be kept throughout the life of their site – Perhaps an ‘about us’ page. Create custom fields for each of their contact details, maybe:

Telephone: 012 345 6789
Fax: 012 345 6789
Email Address: info@site.com

Then, use your special query to call the custom field for each of those

<div id="contactdetails">
	<ul>
		<li>Telephone: <? echo get_post_meta(2, 'telephone', true) ?></li>
		<li>Fax: <? echo get_post_meta(2, 'fax', true) ?></li>
		<li>Email: <a href= "mailto:<? echo get_post_meta(2, 'email', true) ?>"><? echo get_post_meta(2, 'email', true) ?></a></li>
	</ul>
</div>

Note that in this example, ’2′ is the page_id of the about us page. Change this number to whatever the ID is of the page that you use to keep this information.