Title: Add Post (Plugin Custom Fields) Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Add Post (Plugin Custom Fields) * [rickjames68](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickjames68/) * (@rickjames68) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/) * Hi! First, thanks for such a great and much needed plugin. * I am using a plugin that adds extra fields to a custom post type as seen here in this image: [Here](http://postimage.org/image/yy93booy3/) * I would like those fields to also display in the frontend as well. Currently, this is all that displays: [ Image ](http://postimage.org/image/6s11g7oj9/) * Is there a way to also include what you see in the back end on the frontend as well? * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-user-frontend/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-user-frontend/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [Tareq Hasan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tareq1988/) * (@tareq1988) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/#post-3433475) * Sorry, it’s not possible currently. * Thread Starter [rickjames68](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickjames68/) * (@rickjames68) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/#post-3433633) * Does your plugin not pull from the back end dynamically? Or do you hard code all the functionality into it? * Plugin Author [Tareq Hasan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tareq1988/) * (@tareq1988) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/#post-3433679) * There is a custom field creator interface to add custom fields. Have you checked this? * Thread Starter [rickjames68](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickjames68/) * (@rickjames68) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/#post-3433721) * Hi Tareq, * The plugin creates the custom fields which populates the rest of the plugin in functionality. Wouldn’t there be a conflict of names for the custom fields? * [reigelgallarde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reigelgallarde/) * (@reigelgallarde) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/#post-3433751) * [@rickjames68](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickjames68/) * I will try to answer your query here and from the email you sent me. * > If a plugin can create the custom fields found underneath a custom post type, > why can’t those fields be included in the front end? * this plugin, as its current version can create custom post field, but not read the custom post fields under your custom post type. * why is that so? first, the plugin has it’s own record on what input your custom post field will use… example: checkbox, textbox, radio buttons, etc… * now, your theme might have custom post field but might be limited to textbox only… well, depends on how the field was coded. * the plugin “can” get those fields, but assuming what kind of input would be the hard part. currently, the plugin is not capable of doing so. * Maybe soon this plugin will evolved to that.. * talking about conflict, it won’t… why? the plugin is using a prefix for all it’s custom post field. there’s a possibility of conflict, but just a little… * for example, if you add a custom post field in the plugin, you’ll have something like cf_teacher. -that is if you are adding a teacher as custom post field using this plugin. Conflict will occur if you’ll add a custom post field under your custom post type with a key cf_teacher. But if you’ll intend to add custom post field cf_teacher, the custom post field under your custom post type and the custom post field under this plugin will now somewhat sync.. thus, editing at backend or frontend will result to update cf_teacher. * I may have missed some points.. please let me know… * automatic backend to frontend fields? answer is no. not automatic. you have to build the frontend. * Thread Starter [rickjames68](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickjames68/) * (@rickjames68) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/#post-3433766) * If Plugin “A”, creates a custom post type with it’s own custom fields, it would give those custom fields a unique name, correct? Maybe something like “pf_address” * Just as if I were to create custom fields with WPUF, they would have unique names with “cf_address”, correct? * These would not update the same database table, right? One would update/populate pf_address while WPUF would update/populate cf_address * So now I just need to build a form to include under the WPUF Add Post that mimics the fields found in the back end so that it will populate those fields in the database correctly? Will I also need to include this same form in the WPUF Edit Post so that if they choose to edit a newly submitted form to the database it will update those as well on the WPUF Edit Post page? All from the front end? * ================================================= * [@tareq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tareq/) Hasan If the above works, by just creating a custom form to include under your shortcodes to update the database tables of other plugins, this may solve the problem many people are facing on this support forum of not being able to edit other plugin custom fields. A simple tutorial on how to do this would be useful to point those users of WPUF to, who want to update custom fields of other plugins that can’t be updated by the custom fields of WPUF. * [reigelgallarde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reigelgallarde/) * (@reigelgallarde) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/#post-3433772) * yes – yes – yes – * > So now I just need to build a form to include under the WPUF Add Post that > mimics the fields found in the back end so that it will populate those fields > in the database correctly? Will I also need to include this same form in the > WPUF Edit Post so that if they choose to edit a newly submitted form to the > database it will update those as well on the WPUF Edit Post page? All from > the front end? * I’m not sure if I understand you correctly, but if you are using the custom post field of WPUF, both Add and Edit post in the front end will have all the fields… Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Add Post (Plugin Custom Fields)’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-user-frontend/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=2818776) * [User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-user-frontend/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-user-frontend/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-user-frontend/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-user-frontend/reviews/) * 7 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [reigelgallarde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reigelgallarde/) * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-post-plugin-custom-fields/#post-3433772) * Status: not resolved