Meta Field Block – Display Custom Fields for ACF, Meta Box and More
This single-block plugin allows you to display custom fields, shortcode as blocks in the Block Editor. It supports custom fields for posts, terms, and users. It can be nested inside a parent block that has postId and postType context, such as Query Loop , WooCommerce Product Collection , Term Query
About this tool.
This single-block plugin allows you to display custom fields, shortcode as blocks in the Block Editor. It supports custom fields for posts, terms, and users. It can be nested inside a parent block that has postId and postType context, such as Query Loop , WooCommerce Product Collection , Term Query , or used as a stand-alone block.
You can display any field whose value can be retrieved by the core API ( get_post_meta , get_term_meta , get_user_meta ) and is a string or can be converted to a string. To display the field value in the Block Editor, it has to be accessible via the REST API or have the field type set to dynamic .
You can also display custom fields created by the Advanced Custom Fields or Meta Box plugin explicitly. It supports all ACF field types and Meta Box field types whose values are strings or can be converted to strings. Some other ACF complex fields such as Image, Link, Page Link, True False, Checkbox, Select, Radio, Button Group, Taxonomy, User, Post Object and Relationship field types as well as Meta Box fields such as Select, Checkbox, Radio, Image, Video, Taxonomy, User, Post field types are also supported in basic formats.
This plugin also provides developer-friendly hook APIs that allow you to easily customize the output of the block, display complex data type fields, or use the block as a placeholder to display any kind of content with object_id and object_type as context parameters.
An edge case where this block is really helpful is when you need to get the correct post_id in your shortcode when you use it in a Query Loop. In that case, you can set the field type as dynamic and input your shortcode in the field name. The block will display it correctly on both the front end and the editor. Alternatively, if you only want to see the preview of your shortcode in the editor, you can also use this block as a better version of the core/shortcode .
To quickly learn how this block displays custom fields, watch the short guide (for MFB version 1.3.4) by Paul Charlton from WPTuts. The video focuses on the Advanced Custom Fields plugin, but you can use a similar approach to display fields from other frameworks like Meta Box.
Links
- Website
- How it works & tutorials
- MFB PRO
What is the HTML output of a custom field?
The HTML output of a custom field on the front end depends on the context of the field. It uses one of these core API functions to get the field value: get_post_meta , get_term_meta , get_user_meta .
