Page Meta

Yes, as of version 1.5 you can modify which fields are used using the pagemeta_fields filter:

add_filter( 'pagemeta_fields', function( $fields ) { $fields['author'] = 'Author'; // Add a new field. unset( $fields['keywords'] ); // Remove a default field. return $fields; } );

The default fields are ‘title’, ‘description’ and ‘keywords’.

The page meta values can be output within posts using the [postmeta] shortcode.

Passing through a name attribute will determine which value is returned, for example to output the description value use the following.

[postmeta name="description"]

Name values are determined by the fields set, by default these are ‘title’, ‘description’ and ‘keywords’.

To output meta values in template files, you can make use of the_pagemeta function.

<?php if ( function_exists( 'the_pagemeta' ) ) { the_pagemeta( 'description' ); } ?>

This will output the value, in order to return the value or lookup a specific post ID you can use get_the_pagemeta .

<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_the_pagemeta' ) ) { $description = get_the_pagemeta( 'description' ); } ?> <?php if ( function_exists( 'get_the_pagemeta' ) ) { $description = get_the_pagemeta( 'description', // Page meta value name 123 // Post ID to lookup ); } ?>

Not that these functions will return the raw values prior to any output manipulation.