https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-use-a-merge-tag-within-the-custom_field-merge-tag Gravity Support Forums Topic: How to use a merge tag within the custom_field merge tag en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:41:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-use-a-merge-tag-within-the-custom_field-merge-tag#post-49067 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:24:29 +0000 David Smith 49067@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for sharing Dewey. :) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-use-a-merge-tag-within-the-custom_field-merge-tag#post-48227 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:46:23 +0000 deweydb 48227@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Took me all day to figure this out, so i thought i would share the code.<br /> <a href="http://pastebin.com/bKrNJeda" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/bKrNJeda</a> add this code to your functions.php</p> <p>Obviously you might want to do a find and replace on the term "unit_price" and give the custom merge tag your own name, depending on application.</p> <p>Then assuming you wanted to do this: {custom_field:{pizza:7}}<br /> You would write it out like so: {unit_price:pizza_7}</p> <p>Why would you want to use this? say your user choose a type of product from a drop down list and you want to hit them back with more information about the product they chose. You would create a lookup table of all the possible products as custom_fields on the post this is attached to, and then implement the above code.</p> <p>Hopefully this helps someone.</p> <p>-deweydb </p>