Displaying certain custom fields, hiding others

[samh]

Hi all

I was wondering if it's possible to specify some custom fields (just very basic ones being displayed by 'the_meta()') but to hide others that are being generated automatically. In my case, the disqus comment system.

What I'm finding (obviously!) is that when I use the_meta(), all custom fields are being displayed. It makes sense, but I unfortunately don't have the know how to only display certain elements.

This is the first theme I've built from scratch and I'm down to the pesky last 5% which seems to take forever!

Cheers

Sam

[williamsba]

Check out get_post_meta(), used like so:

<?php
echo get_post_meta( $post_id, 'custom_field_name', true );
?>

Just pass the post ID, custom field name, and whether to return a single value or an array (true/false)