Custom Fields Not Working In Footer

Question

A friend of mine wants the address in his footer to be editable. So I thought to add Custom Fields to a post and then, in the footer call that post (named "Info Post") and get the address from a custom field.

I can successfully get the ID of the post but when I try to get the post meta with

echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'street_address', true);

nothing happens.

Could someone explain where I am going wrong? Or if anyone has an idea of how better to do this I'm all ears.

Thanks for any all help!

The code I was using to get $post->ID was requested so I have added it below I have attempted to reach the 'street_address' field in a variety of ways but none of them have worked. When I echo $post->ID I do get the correct ID though.

<?php 

    $queryObject = new WP_Query( array(
                'title' => 'Business Info',
                'posts_per_page' => 1,
                ));

?>
<?php if ( $queryObject->have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( $queryObject->have_posts() ) : $queryObject->the_post(); ?>

                    <?php 
                        // print_r($post);
                        $street_address = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'street_address', true);
                    ?>
            <div class="large-6 columns">
                <h3>Our office location is at <?php echo $street_address;?>.</h3>
                <!-- Image Here -->
                <p>
                    <?php echo $post->ID; ?>
                    <?php 
                        // print_r($post);
                        $street_address = the_field('street_address');
                        echo $street_address;
                        the_field('street_address');
                    ?>
                    <br>
                    We'd love to see you there!
                </p>
            </div>

<?php endwhile;?>
<?php else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>  

Answer 1

Ok, since we're going the post meta route (as opposed to options), there's a much cleaner and efficient way to grab a post by it's title:

if ( $info = get_page_by_title( 'Business Info', OBJECT, 'post' ) ) {
    // do stuff
}

Don't let the page in the function name throw you off - the third argument is the post type (in this case post).

Secondly, let's find out what's actually going on:

if ( $info = get_page_by_title( 'Business Info', OBJECT, 'post' ) ) {
    echo '<pre>';
    echo esc_html( print_r( get_post_meta( $info->ID ), true ) );
    echo '</pre>';
} else {
    echo 'Oh no!';
}

Report back with you what you get from the above debugging snippet.