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Yup I have been modding wordpress again.

Here is a little snipit that some of you might find useful. You can use the get_post_meta() call to add additional fields to your wordpress posts.

Whist developing the latest theme I decided that I needed an equivalent to the_excerpt() for pages, or an into as so to speak.

All you need to do is add the following or an equivalent to your page loop, the div class and style are bespoke:

<?php
$key=”post-intro”;
$intro = get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true);
if ($intro){
echo “<div class=’post-body’ style=’clear:both;’>”;
echo $intro;
echo “</div>”;
}
?>

Then if your page has a custom field of “post-intro” the value will be outputted.

Please notice from the image that this works for HTML in addition to standard text which is cool as this means you can also add images etc using this method.

I still need to test the custom fields PHP capability but the inclusion of HTML suggests that this should not be a problem.

Ill give it a try and get back to you.