Creating Advanced, Contextual Layouts in WordPress with Conditional Custom Fields

One of the most overlooked features of WordPress is its ability to place content outside the main post content area and into custom fields created by the website’s administrator user. These fields can be used to do just about anything, from displaying a current mood or song to holding a great deal of content-specific information that might be relevant only to some kinds of posts. Even though their functions are often misunderstood and overlooked, these custom fields are actually quite advanced and they enable some really great things with the website’s design when they’re implemented not only as blocks of content, but also as conditional variables determining a website’s layout based on the post’s content.

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