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I have the following code, and I am attempting to concatenate the values of the echo html code & 'the_meta'. Can anyone please suggest an edit to code to get this working?

CURRENT CODE

<?php echo '<p style="text-align:left;font-size:18px;margin-bottom:5px;">
<span style="color: #000000;">By AUTHOR FOR</span> <?php the_meta(); ?>  </p>'; ?>

DESIRED RESULT

By AUTHOR FOR A GREAT MAGAZINE

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To display the_meta () after the 'by author for' text just needs a small change:

<p style="text-align:left;font-size:18px;margin-bottom:5px;"><span style="color: #000000;">By AUTHOR FOR</span> <?php the_meta (); ?></p>

However I'm not sure you want to use the_meta (), because all values get displayed, and in an unordered list. (Reference: the_meta.)

Instead you probably want get_post_meta, so:

<p style="text-align:left;font-size:18px;margin-bottom:5px;"><span style="color: #000000;">By AUTHOR FOR</span> <?php echo get_post_meta (get_the_ID (), 'my-author-meta-key', true); ?></p>

Replacing my-author-meta-key with your meta key name, obviously.

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Did you try adding echo ""; inside the tag like this:

 <?php the_meta(echo "somethin" ); ?>
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  • I would like the value of the html echo first and then the value of 'meta_data' second. Presumably the above wouldn't achieve this? – YorkieMagento Jan 4 '17 at 20:42
  • It's all wrapped in one paragraph, I assume it will appear the order I see it, perhaps you could give it a try – Coffee coder Jan 4 '17 at 20:45

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