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    Simple little snippet that will use a custom field sponsored set to true will prepend “‘Sponsored post:” to the_title. The second snippet will prepend the value of sponsored to the_title.

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    wordpress snippet : PHP

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    add_filter( 'the_title', 'wps_sponsored' );
function wps_sponsored( $title ) {
   global $post;
   $sponsored = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sponsored', true);
   if( is_single() && $sponsored == 'true' ){
       return 'Sponsored post: '.$title;
   }
   return $title;
}


    The second snippet will prepend whatever value you add to the sponsored custom field to the_title.

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    wordpress snippet : PHP

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    add_filter( 'the_title', 'wps_sponsored' );
function wps_sponsored( $title ) {
   global $post;
   $sponsored = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sponsored', true);
   if( is_single() && !empty($sponsored) ){
       return $sponsored.' '.$title;
   }
   return $title;
}

    ( WordPress codex functions, hooks, in this snippet. )

    the_title, get_post, is_single, get_post_meta, add_filter, wp,
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