How to add an extra field in a post and show it on the template

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I’m extremely new to WP. I want to add an extra field to the Post interface and show the content on a template. I don’t want to show the content of the Post, but just the content in the extra field.

Basically what I’m trying to achieve is design a Customer Testimonial page on my website where I show the full testimonial using the extra field, and show the post content as the mini testimonial if you get what Im saying. Please let me know if I need to clarify more. Thanks heaps. I tried custom fields in WP, but not sure how to grab the extra content only. is there a plug out there for this?

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  1. You can use a custom field eaisly then call into the template
    (the image shows custom field <– my installation is in hebrew but would look the same and apears under the editor)

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    Then you can get the value of the field like so…

    Inside the loop

    <?php
$key="customField"; 
echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true);
?>

    Outside the loop

    <?php
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;

// mykey = field name

$key="customField";
$result = get_post_meta($postid, $key, true);
echo $result;
?>

    .
    Hope this helps… i would use custom post type but
    this is the easy way to add a field to a post

    Good Luck, Sagive.