Wordpress: How to retrieve custom field from normal posts

Many people use the custom meta fields in wordpress posts. In this article I will show you how to retrieve the custom field from wordpress post. For fetching the custom fields you just need to use the following code.

$key_values = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, 'key');

If you are using normal post or custom post type above function will work. Here is another code for fetching the custom post type meta values.

$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' =&gt; 'product', 'posts_per_page' =&gt; 10 ) );
while ( $loop-&gt;have_posts() ) : $loop-&gt;the_post();
the_title();
the_content();
global $post;
$custom = get_post_custom($post-&gt;ID);
echo $thumbnail_url = $custom["thumbnail_url"][0];
echo $product_info = $custom["product_info"][0];
echo '
<div>';
the_content();
echo '</div>
';
endwhile;