How to display the post title of another post whose ID is stored as a custom field

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Problem:
Posts are connected to other posts by storing the ID of the connected post as a custom field.

How to display the post title of the connected post?

Solution:
Use the id attribute to switch the context for the wpv-post-title shortcode, for example:

[wpv-post-title id="[types field='my-custom-field' output='raw'][/types]"]

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-post-title

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Last updated by gavinS-2 6 years, 10 months ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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January 30, 2018 at 10:24 am #611017

gavinS-2

I have a type (accessory-items) which saves the post ID of another type (item-models) as one of it's fields.

I am saving the post ID as a field because the post already has a parent field which is a different item-model post. (There is a many to many relationship between item-model and item-model.)

However in my view I wish to display the post title for the saved post id, not the ID number. How do I do this?

Sorry this seems simple, but I can't seem to find any related tickets..

January 30, 2018 at 12:14 pm #611049

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You can use the output of your types field to generate the id attribute of the wpv-post-title shortcode (the id attribute will tell the shortcode to get the title from a particular post, not the current one).

[wpv-post-title id="[types field='my-custom-field' output='raw'][/types]"]

You'll need to edit the field slug, of course.

January 30, 2018 at 1:08 pm #611068

gavinS-2

Perfect

Thanks Nigel