- Category rank
- #121 in Widget
- Listing audit
- 48/100
Get Custom Field Values is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Scott Reilly. With a rating of 5.0★ from 4 reviews, it currently ranks #121 in the Widget category.
Get Custom Field Values is the #121 ranked Widget app on WordPress, with a 5.0 average rating from 4 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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Get Custom Field Values ranks #121 of 781 in Widget on WordPress. It holds a 5.0★ average from 4 reviews on WordPress.
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- No standout positives in the measured data.
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- −Only 4 reviews — the average can still move with a few new ratings
How Get Custom Field Values works
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This plugin provides a powerful widget, shortcode (with shortcode builder tool), and template tags for easily retrieving and displaying custom field values for posts or pages.
The power of custom fields gives this plugin the potential to be dozens of plugins all rolled into one.
This plugin allows you to harness the power of custom fields/meta data. Use the “Get Custom Field” widget, the [custom_field] shortcode (which has a post editor sidebar widget to help you build the shortcode), or one of six template tags to retrieve and display custom fields. Find a custom field for the current post, a specified post, a recent post, or randomly. And for the custom field values found by the plugin, you may optionally specify text or HTML to appear before and after the results. If nothing is found, then nothing is display (unless you define text to appear when no results are found). If multiple results are found, only the first will be displayed unless you specify a string to be used to join the results together (such as “,”), in which case all will be returned. Visit the Examples section to see how this plugin can be cast in dozens of different ways.
There are six template tags provided by this plugin. Here they are, with an explanation of when they are appropriate for use:
c2c_get_custom() : Use this inside “the loop” to retrieve a custom field value for a post
c2c_get_current_custom() : This is only available on the permalink post template (single.php) and page template (page.php). Can be used inside or outside “the loop”. Useful for using custom field to define text you want to include on a post or page’s header, footer, or sidebar.
c2c_get_post_custom() : Useful when you know the ID of the post whose custom field value you want.
c2c_get_random_custom() : Retrieve the value of a random instance of the specified custom field key, as long as the field is associated with a published posted, non-passworded post (you can modify a setting in the plugin file to search passworded posts as well).
