WordPress – get_post_meta() function not returning value?

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I’m trying to get my WordPress theme to pull up a thumbnail image for each post listed on the index page that I specify in a custom field added to the post in a field that is specified as ‘image’. For whatever reason the get_post_meta() function isn’t returning anything though, try as I might. What am I doing wrong?

Here’s the code:

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>


<div class="posts-wrapper">
    <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
    <img src="<?php get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', true); ?>">

</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
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  1. Since WordPress 2.9, there is a featured images function you can use for thumbnails that is much easier than using custom fields. Here’s how to do it:

    Add in functions.php:

    if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { // Added in 2.9
 add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
 set_post_thumbnail_size( 200, 200, true ); // Normal post thumbnails -- values: ( width, height, hard-crop-mode );
 add_image_size( 'home-post-thumbnail', 900, 300, true ); // Homepage thumbnail size
 add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 300, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size
}

    Then you just add this wherever you want the thumbnail to display:

    <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'single-post-thumbnail' ); // Change according to your thumbnail names ?>

    And when you’re writing a post, on the far right side of the page, there’s a Featured Images section. Select your image and viola! 🙂

  3. For wordpress 5.4.2, I fetch meta fields as below and it works. Replace text “image” with your meta_key

    <?php $meta = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),'image',true); echo $meta? $meta['text']: '';?>