Hi everyone. I'm not sure where to put this, but wanted to share because I have struggled to find a good solution. Feel free to delete this post if it is not helpful.
In most cases, Meta Box & especially MB Views is the best solution for everything! 🙂 Except when you want to quickly render post meta inside a Query Loop block in the Gutenberg block editor. (Yes, you can create your own query loop in MB Views and use that to output construct and render a layout for a custom post type, and that's GREAT and easy, but can require a little more custom styling. And when using the Gutenberg block editor, if you put a shortcode inside of a Query Loop block, the post_id passed to your shortcode is for the parent page, not the current post in query loop. Which makes it hard to do display custom fields for custom post types quickly/easily inside the block editor. )
SOLUTION!: Meta Field Block By Phi Phan. This plugin provides a block where you can enter any custom field ID to display it. Note that it doesn't render the meta whilst editing (and it can even be hard to find the block once you've placed it). But overall, it works reliably and works well with Meta Box -- https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-a-meta-field-as-block/
I'm guessing this is an issue that will be solved by MB and WP in the near future, but until this, this plugin saved me a ton of time.
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