Speaker Custom field

[Karen Acklin]

Hello,

I need to add a custom field to add the speaker in an event.

Is this possible, if so how?

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Karen,

You can use the custom fields metabox to store extra details.

Or if you wish to something more advanced you could add your own metabox.

Either way the custom data would be stored against the event with a meta data key. You would then need to edit the templates (e.g. event-organiser/templates/event-single-event-meta.php) to display the meta data:

<?php 
//Prints the value stored against the key 'my_meta_key'
echo esc_html( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'my_meta_key', true ) );
?>

[Stephen Harris]

There is also this site which automatically generates the code for creating a metabox: https://generatewp.com/the-meta-box-generator/

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