Reply To: How can I make a gallery field return the attachment IDs?

• Ihor Vorotnov

• January 31, 2019 at 4:46 am

The gallery field is stored in the database as a serialized array of attachment IDs.

You can use native WordPress’ function to get those IDs in a form of simple one-dimensional array:

get_post_meta( $post_id, 'gallery_field_key', true )