Get values in a widget with get_post_meta()

• Vasili

• April 17, 2017 at 1:32 am

Hi guys,

I was looking for a way, but could not find a one yet. In widget, using get_field() we need to add the widget id as another parameter, but it won’t work in get_post_meta().

Is it possible to get values in widgets with get_post_meta() instead of get_field()?

• James

• April 17, 2017 at 6:06 pm

Hi @vasili

This should be possible, but you will also need to get the page/post id and pass this as the first parameter. The code would look like so:

global $wp_query;
if(is_object($wp_query->queried_object) && $wp_query->queried_object->ID)
{
    echo get_post_meta($wp_query->queried_object->ID, 'field_name', true);
}

• Vasili

• April 22, 2017 at 7:36 pm

@acf-support

Hi James

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately it did not work and returned nothing. I’m trying to pull the field value in a widget which is placed on the “Your latest posts” page as index.php.

I’ve also tried using the get_option('page_for_posts'); and get_option('page_on_front'); to get the id of this page. If i just print the get_option() function it will return the id, but inside the get_post_meta() it always return an empty string.

• Vasili

• April 23, 2017 at 12:16 am

@acf-support

Hi James

An Update!

After further investigation i see that fields in widgets are stored as options in the wp_options table. I was able to pull the values using the following code:

echo get_option('widget_' . $args['widget_id'] . '_field_name');

The only thing is that field value is not changing live in Customizer, only after i hit the “Save & Publish” button and refreshing the page on the front end.

More work needed with get_option().

• James

• April 25, 2017 at 12:56 am

Hi @vasili

Thanks a lot for the follow up.

I am glad you were able to load the value as expected.

Will do some test on the same to verify the solution.

Thanks for the feedback.