In cases where you want to display specific metadata for an item, in a specific order, you can use the item helper for each metadata field instead of relying on the show_item_metadata helper.
Lets say, for example we want to forgo using the show_item_metadata helper, and instead display the Title, Creator, Description, and Tags for every item. Lets use the item helper to get the first three fields, wrapping each instance of those fields with an HTML:
<h2 id="item-title"><?php echo item('Dublin Core', 'Title'); ?></h2> <p id="item-creator"><?php echo item('Dublin Core', 'Creator'); ?></p> <div id="item-description"> <?php echo item('Dublin Core', 'Description'); ?> </div>
You could do something similar for any of the Dublin Core or Item Type Metadata fields.
For the tags, we'll use another helper function, item_tags_as_string, to display the tags as a comma-separated string, like so:
Since we're not passing any parameters to the item_tags_as_string, we'll use the defaults.
All of the code, written together, would look like this:
<h2 id="item-title"><?php echo item('Dublin Core', 'Title'); ?></h2> <p id="item-creator"><?php echo item('Dublin Core', 'Creator'); ?></p> <div id="item-description"> <?php echo item('Dublin Core', 'Description'); ?> </div> <div id="item-tags"> <?php echo item_tags_as_string(); ?> </div>
This would generate:
<h2 id="item-title">Item Title</h2> <p id="item-creator">Jane Doe</p> <div id="item-description"> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p> </div> <div id="item-tags"> Lorem, ipsum, dolor, sit, amet </div>
