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

I've written some simple templating functions that enable you to use the meta data (custom data) in your theme. You can write a template function for any meta data key/value pair, and render it in a theme file like so:

Feel free to check out the basic functions from github and give them a try. You'll need to add them to your themes functions.php file.