Reply To: Meta is being duplicated in database

• John Huebner

• August 12, 2015 at 3:35 pm

If I understand you correctly, to get the image you would do something like below. Image and file fields only store attachment IDs

$attachment_id = get_post_meta($post_id, 'image_field', true);
if ($attachement_id) {
    $image =  wp_get_attachment_image_src( $attachment_id, $size);
    if ($image) {
        // output image here
        // see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_attachment_image_src
    }
}