Comments on: Using WordPress Custom Fields

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:58:49 +0000

Hi John, I’m looking answer for custom field and the answer come from the past.
How to make a neater table? How to add background colors and borders, I’ve tried this but I can only code big error on screen, can you help me?
And should I used plugin so that the same custom fields can be reused in many post without setting up again?

Thanks in Advance

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:47:17 +0000

You don’t need to use custom fields for that. Check out the author templates section of the WordPress codex for a bit on how to get that done:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates

By: Lakshmi Rajan

Lakshmi Rajan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:29:19 +0000

Hi, Wonderful easy to understand post. Can the custom field be used to bring the author info and link to the author’s other posts along with the image of the author in a multi-author site? So with what I understand, I need an author name and value for each author and then code each author custom field into the single template. Am i right?

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:21:47 +0000

@Ray: Since custom fields are essential key=>value pairs, there’s no elegant way to do that.

A quick search on Google didn’t yield any obvious results.

One option would be to add a numeric index to the image name and then parse that index before displaying the image, reordering the images by that index.

It depends on how you’re getting those image names, but if you have an image like “my-first-image.jpg”, you could enter “1_my-first-image.jpg” in your custom field.

When you get those image names, pull off everything up to the underscore using something like this:
$image = "1_my-first-image.jpg"; $pos = strpos($image, "_"); $index = substr($image, 0, $pos); $image_name = substr($image, $pos + 1); echo $index . " " . $image_name;

Something like that would get the index off the front of the image name, then get the image name. You could assign the result to an array, then loop through the array using foreach to print the img string.

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:05:55 +0000

Anything’s possible. It’s really out of the scope of this article though. I’ll add it to the list of possible future posts.

By: Ray Gulick

Ray Gulick — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:30:57 +0000

John – I recently used custom fields to add a series of images to a slide show. Once completed, I realized I have no easy way to reorganize the sequence. For instance, if I add another image, it goes on the end, though I might want it to show up third. Ideas?

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:16:03 +0000

Hey Chad, thanks for the input, but maybe it would be more productive to give me an idea of what you think makes the site un-navigable.

I’m open to constructive criticism, but not big on insults.

By: Troy

Troy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:14:01 +0000

Chad, give the guy a break. What he thinks looks good is his business. Don’t be such a dolt.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:27:34 +0000

hi, great post.
Do you know if its possible to add a custom field to the quick edit of a post?

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:33:34 +0000

man, wordpress has such beautiful, simple, elegant themes, and you are claiming to be a wordpress “HACKER”.

Why then is your website so ugly and un-navigable ?

You should consider hiring a designer to make your site more “pleasing on the eye”.

Seriously !

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:00:44 +0000

Yes, this should work for pages as well.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:45:54 +0000

Can you let us know if this is the same for pages?

Some time ago I wanted a Page list that would allow a description field and would reference it from the code but I could never get it to work and ended up hard coding the menu.