Displaying information from Custom Fields in template with Types?

Question

I am trying to understand Custom Fields and how I can use them on my posts.

I have set up a Custom Field for 'author' and associated it with a template.

Now, on the PHP side of things I need to designate where the custom field's out put will be.

I have followed the documentation on the WP-Types site here and so have written:

<p>Author: <?php   types_render_field( "author", array( ) ) ?></p>

But it returns nothing.

Im not sure what I've done wrong. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Got it. It simply required echo in the call.

<p>Author: <?php echo types_render_field( "author", array( ) ) ?></p>