How to display Meta Field Value?

Question

I am trying to display the value of a Meta field on single.php. The Meta Key is 'current_rank'.

I tried...

<?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'current_rank', true);  ?>

This code does not output anything, not even an error. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You're very likely running that outside of the loop.

To confirm, try the following:

$post_id = get_the_ID();

$current_rank = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'current_rank', true);

echo 'Post ID is: ' . $post_id;
echo '<br> Current Rank is: ' . $current_rank;

Are you getting post ID printed on the page? Is the current rank showing empty? Then the current_rank meta value for this post is definitely empty.