Why isn't get_post_meta working?

Question

Simple Wordpress problem - get_post_meta is not retrieving custom field values. Here\'s the code that is pulling from the custom fields:

Answer 1

If you are calling get_post_meta inside the loop then you should call get_post_meta(get_the_id(), 'YOURKEY', true) instead of get_post_meta($post->ID, 'YOURKEY', true)

Strange things happens when you call get_post_meta inside a loop. In some themes developers hack the $post at the beginning and get_post_meta stops working so this is one of the solution for those particular cases too.