Display custom field of parent and child inline

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Problem: I have a View of child posts placed on a parent post page. I would like to display information about parent and child posts together in the same line of text.

Solution: Move the custom field for the parent post into the View of child posts. This will prevent extra markup from causing the line breaks between field display.

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Last updated by arnoldd 7 years, 1 month ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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October 17, 2017 at 2:42 pm #579584

arnoldd

I have a custom post type "companies". These companies include custom fields including: place-name.

In addition, I have a child post "addresses" for additional locations (one to many).

In the custom post page of a company, I want to show the place name. This can be done simply via a shortcode:
[types field = 'place-name'] [/ types]

But then I will not get the remaining place-names of the child post.

I've made a view with a relationship filter to get the other places.

In the content / page template i add the shortcode and the view next to each other to show all place names.

This works. Only the layout is stacked instead of inline.

I dont think this is the right way to do this. Can you point me in the right direction.

October 17, 2017 at 4:42 pm #579636

Christian Cox

In the content / page template i add the shortcode and the view next to each other to show all place names.
I think I would move the first shortcode inside the View of child posts, and use the $parent ID attribute to access information from the parent post:

[wpv-layout-start]	
  [types field="place-name" id="$parent"][/types]
  [wpv-items-found]
	<!-- wpv-loop-start -->
	<wpv-loop>
... the rest of your View code ...

Try that and let me know if it works for you.

October 17, 2017 at 6:02 pm #579659

arnoldd

It works. Thanks!