Retrieves data from a post field based on Post ID.

Description

Examples of the post field will be, ‘post_type’, ‘post_status’, ‘post_content’, etc and based off of the post object property or key names.

The context values are based off of the taxonomy filter functions and supported values are found within those functions.

See also

• sanitize_post_field()

Parameters

$fieldstringrequired

Post field name.

$postint|WP_Postoptional

Post ID or post object. Defaults to global $post.

Default:null

$contextstringoptional

How to filter the field. Accepts 'raw', 'edit', 'db', or 'display'. Default 'display'.

Default:'display'

Return

Source

function get_post_field( $field, $post = null, $context = 'display' ) {
	$post = get_post( $post );

	if ( ! $post ) {
		return '';
	}

	if ( ! isset( $post->$field ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	return sanitize_post_field( $field, $post->$field, $post->ID, $context );
}

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