Render Page Custom Field Data in Gutenberg Block

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October 5, 2021 at 10:32 PM #31165

Resolved Kyle Melton
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Hi All,

I was wondering if there was a way to render the output of a text custom field into a Gutenberg block created with MB Blocks. To add context we used the twig option to create the Gutenberg blocks and we have a custom field that we would like to use as a setting in several blocks we have created without the user having to enter it for each block placed on the page.

Thanks!
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October 6, 2021 at 9:20 AM #31174
Long Nguyen
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Hi Kyle,

You can use the helper function rwmb_meta() and pass the ID of the page/post as the third parameter to get text field value of that post/page.
```
rwmb_meta( 'text_fieldID', '', 12345 );
```
If you use the Render Code area in the Builder, call a PHP function via the proxy mb. Please read more here https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-views/#running-php-functions
October 9, 2021 at 9:05 PM #31242
Kyle Melton
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Thank you for your answer. So if I were to call it in code using the example like this:
```
{% set post = mb.get_post( 123 ) %}
{{ post.post_title }}
```
In my scenario my custom field has a field id of 3168
and my custom field name is product_name

Using the above code in MB blocks code I could simply call it like this (if I am understanding that correctly):
```
{% set post = mb.get_post( 3168 ) %}
{{ post.product_name }}
```
It appears blank when I test it so I am sure I am missing one small simple piece.

Thanks again for all of your help!
October 9, 2021 at 10:07 PM #31246
Kyle Melton
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Please disregard my last post. I wound up getting it to work like this:
```
{% set post = mb.get_post() %}
{{ post.product_name }}
```
It renders my custom field on the front end from within a Gutenberg block but it does not show up in the editor. It is just a blank block. Any way to render here for preview?
October 9, 2021 at 11:10 PM #31248
Long Nguyen
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Hi Kyle,

If you do not pass the post ID to the function get_post(), it only works only on the frontend.

null, false, 0 and other PHP falsey values return the current global post inside the loop

Please read more on the documentation https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post/

The Render Code area in the Builder supports to get the current post ID by using the variable post_id. For example:
```
{% set post = mb.get_post( post_id ) %}
{{ post.product_name }}
```
List of prebuilt variables can be used:

attribute Block attribute. Replace attribute with anchor, align, or className.
field_id Field value. Replace field_id with a real field ID.
is_preview Whether in preview mode.
post_id Current post ID.
October 28, 2021 at 1:48 AM #31561

Kyle Melton
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Thank you Long!

Much appreciated!
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