Do I need a loop to display an object that attached to posts?

Question

I created a picture for each post. It takes inputs at the post creat/edit step, then, calculates in a Class and generates the picture. The inputs are saved into the post meta. Now I need to display the picture after publish the post.

From the editing page, I can see the Class works perfectly and generates the right picture. I think, when displaying the post, the first step is to require the inputs that saved in post meta, but each post has a picture, how the class work through them. So, my guess is to make a loop?

Answer 1

You don't need separate loop to access post meta. You can use get_the_ID() in main loop to retrieve ID of current post and then use it in get_post_meta() to retrieve your data.