Title: Adding an attribute as a column
Last modified: February 15, 2021

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# Adding an attribute as a column

 *  Resolved [mattypartridge17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattypartridge17/)
 * (@mattypartridge17)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-attribute-as-a-column/)
 * Hi,
 * I have created an attribute called ‘reference’, it’s for our real estate website.
   I wish to create an additional column to show the ‘reference’ next to ‘title’,‘
   date’, ‘image’ etc within the listing sections of the admin area. How can I do
   this with this plugin?
 * Thanks
 * Matt

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 *  Plugin Author [Stefan van den Dungen Gronovius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dungengronovius/)
 * (@dungengronovius)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-attribute-as-a-column/#post-14055967)
 * If I understand you correctly, you can try to add our Custom Field column to 
   your page and select the ‘reference’ attribute (called a Custom field in the 
   WordPress ecosystem) from the list. Once added, it should display the value of
   that reference in the column.
 *  Thread Starter [mattypartridge17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattypartridge17/)
 * (@mattypartridge17)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-attribute-as-a-column/#post-14062823)
 * Thank you for your response. I have managed to get an additional column to appear
   by but it doesn’t pull in the reference number, it just shows a dash. The attribute
   is called ‘ref’ but in the drop-down of ‘field’ in the plugin, it shows ‘ref_number’.
   I tried testing it by creating a new attribute called ‘test_ref’ but it doesn’t
   appear as an option to pick when I select ‘custom field’ then look for it in ‘
   field’.
 *  Plugin Author [Stefan van den Dungen Gronovius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dungengronovius/)
 * (@dungengronovius)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-attribute-as-a-column/#post-14069504)
 * You’ll need least one post with the custom field populated for the current post
   type in order to see the custom field in the list.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-attribute-as-a-column/#post-14069504)
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