Getting Custom Field data from a page hierarchy

This one might get you started (this one is for the size as you can see since i do value 1 times value 2) (just to give an example of more advanced queries)

 global $edl_global_join;
 global $edl_global_orderby;
 global $wp_query;

 function edl_posts_join ($join) {
   global $edl_global_join;
   if ($edl_global_join) $join .= " $edl_global_join";
   return $join;
 }

 function edl_posts_orderby ($orderby) {
  global $edl_global_orderby;
  if ($edl_global_orderby) $orderby = $edl_global_orderby;
  return $orderby;
 }

 add_filter('posts_join','edl_posts_join');
 add_filter('posts_orderby','edl_posts_orderby');

 $edl_global_join = 
 "JOIN $wpdb->postmeta meta1 ON (meta1.post_id = $wpdb->posts.ID AND meta1.meta_key = 'TOPSPEED')" .
 "JOIN $wpdb->postmeta meta2 ON (meta2.post_id = $wpdb->posts.ID AND meta2.meta_key = 'ANOTHER_THING')";
 $edl_global_orderby = " meta1.meta_value * meta2.meta_value DESC";

 $wp_query = new WP_Query($args);

and then just run the loop I wrote a “CAR class” which among others displays meta fields such as:

 $car->display_meta_size();

which is actually the following method in that class:

    //
// specific display for size overviews
//
function display_meta_size()
{
    $this->mMetaData->GetValuesFromWP();
    ?>
    <table width="100%">
    <?php   
    $this->mMetaData->ShowIcon();
    $this->mMetaData->ShowSize();
    ?>
    </table>
    <?php
} 

where the method GetValuesFromWP() is from the wp metadata class :

// get the values stored in WordPress
function GetValuesFromWP() {
    global $post;
    $custom = get_post_custom($post->ID);

    foreach ($this->mArrMetaDataFields as $str_meta_data_field)
    {
        $this->MetaDataWpValues[$str_meta_data_field] = 
                    $custom[$str_meta_data_field][0];
    }
    $this->MetaDataWpValues['SPECIAL'] = $custom['SPECIAL'][0];
}

(so in the join function totally above add the page selection(s))

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