At the moment I am doing something like the following from inside the main loop;
$custom_values = get_post_custom_values('tenderfields');
$custom_values = unserialize($custom_values[0]);
$custom_values = $custom_values[0];
Then accessing them with $custom_values['my-custom-value']
This works fine but feels a little clunky, it feels like something there is probably already an internal call for that I am just missing?
I have looked through the docs and couldn’t find anything.
If you always need all of post meta at once this is the way to do it.
To access post meta for specific key use
get_post_meta()that will retrieve value(s) and unserialize if needed.