rwmb_meta not working in wp_get_recent_posts

Hey guys!

So, ran into a recent issue and just wanted to share it with you. I did find a solution, but it meant bypassing rwmb_meta and going back to get_post_meta.

Essentially, I was building a shortcode for recent posts, to display 5 upcoming events and wanted to show the event date (not the post date), and ran into a problem loading custom meta.

rwmb_meta just didn't work:

function radix_events_shortcode() {

	ob_start();

		$currentdatetime = current_time( 'timestamp' );

		$args = array(
		    'numberposts' => '5',
		    'post_type' => 'events',
			'order'          => 'ASC',
			'orderby'        => 'meta_value',
			'meta_query'     => array(
				array(
					'key'     => 'radix_eventstart',
					'value'   => $currentdatetime,
					'compare' => '>',
				)
			)
		);

	    $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );

	    foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ) {

			echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '">' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li>' . date( 'jS F Y', rwmb_meta($recent["ID"], "radix_eventstart" ,true) );
	
		}

	return ob_get_clean();

}

add_shortcode( 'show_latest_events', 'radix_events_shortcode' );

I had to change the date field to:

date( 'jS F Y', get_post_meta($recent["ID"], "radix_eventstart" ,true) )

That seemed to fix the problem, but I would've expected rwmb_meta to work in this situation. My impression was that get_post_meta and rwmb_meta were indistinguishable, but that you guys recommend using rwmb_meta in most circumstances?

Might be worth looking into! 🙂