How to replace post date on home page posts – Ambiance Pro

[skstudio]

Hello!
For Ambiance Pro, how can I replace the date on the homepage posts with a custom field?
I made a custom field Key called Week.
I found existing code in the Ambiance Pro index.php file, lines 23-30.

	//* Customize the entry meta in the entry header
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );
	add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'ambiance_post_info', 12 );
	function ambiance_post_info() {

		echo '<p class="entry-meta">' . do_shortcode( '[post_date]' ) . '</p>';

	}

But I am unsure on the steps so the custom field for each post will be displayed on the home page instead of the date.

Any ideas are helpful.

Thanks much!

[AnitaC]

You can create a shortcode for the custom field. Then replace the [post_date] with your shortcode. There are a couple posts on the web on how to do that. Try Ren's tutorial here - https://www.engagewp.com/create-shortcodes-pull-custom-field-data/.

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[skstudio]

Anita, Thank you so much! I got it to work with your idea! I studied the site you mentioned above and then searched some more. Here is the code that I ended up with:

1. Create a shortcode: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-shortcode-in-wordpress/https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-shortcode-in-wordpress/
2. Using https://www.isitwp.com/get-custom-field-value-with-shortcode/ as my inspiration,
added this my custom functions plugin. You could probably add it to functions.php.

add_shortcode( 'field', 'sk_week' );

/****************************************************************
 Shortcode to pull custom field
****************************************************************/
add_shortcode('field', 'shortcode_field');
 
function shortcode_field($atts){
     extract(shortcode_atts(array(
                  'post_id' => NULL,
               ), $atts));
  if(!isset($atts[0])) return;
       $field = esc_attr($atts[0]);
       global $post;
       $post_id = (NULL === $post_id) ? $post->ID : $post_id;
       return get_post_meta($post_id, $field, true);
}

3. In the index.php modified the shortcode area
From:
echo '<p class="entry-meta">' . do_shortcode( '[post_date]' ) . '</p>';
To:
echo '<p class="entry-meta">' . do_shortcode( '[field "sk-prepost-title"]' ) . '</p>';

Works great!
Many thanks to you and the community!
SK

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