subject: An Introduction To The WordPress Custom Fields [print this page] Author: Chuck Starr Author: Chuck Starr
WordPress Custom Fields are extra information that you can add to the posts and pages. You can start off by visiting the WordPress Using Custom Fields. This is a basic tutorial and will provide a fair idea of the subject. You will find some valuable information. But these tutorials are not detailed and do not guide you through the many uses of WordPress Custom Fields. This is one reason why people still find it difficult to use the custom fields. Though, the reality is that you can do a lot of things with WordPress Custom Fields and imagination is the key to the custom fields.
Your first question will be where to put information on the custom fields. Either on the Write Page or the Write Post in the Dashboard section of the WordPress, you will find a section at the bottom that will permit you to input a lot of custom fields. Key and Value are the two different things that you can input in the custom field. This makes your work simple indeed.
But you would be wondering, what is Key and Value. The Key refers to the name of the custom field and Value refers to the value you want to give to that name. For instance, if you are writing a movie review, you might want to add a couple of more information like the director of the movie, actors in the movie, and producer of the movie etc. you might also give a link with the help of other website and create a star rating system or other things.
Now what should you do with all this information? You can put the information on the pages, sidebars or wherever you like. If you want to show a list of movie reviews, and in alphabetical order, with the directors name, you can make custom field that has the Key as director and Value as the name of the director for all the reviews. After doing this put this into the category of movie reviews. Following is the way you can create the list of each movie review. In your category ID, change the name of category=27 to Movie Reviews category ID.
