Title: Adding an empty custom field
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding an empty custom field

 *  [DrLightman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drlightman/)
 * (@drlightman)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-empty-custom-field/)
 * Actually you can’t add an empty custom field to a post/page.
 * In my opinion this is not fully correct, one should be able to add whatever string
   he wants into a custom field, even an empty one.
 * In my case, I was adding custom fields and the client later should have filled
   in with some texts that would be echoed in the template.
 * He didn’t know the names of the custom fields so I simply had to add them with
   an empty value. But this is not possibile and I had to fill in some random text
   just to bypass the error message. Tried with a space also and it threw the same
   error “Please provide a custom field value.”
 * What do you people think about this?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-empty-custom-field/#post-2292119)
 * Yes, you need placeholder text. Or code a plugin that forces the display at all
   times.

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## Tags

 * [allow](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/allow/)
 * [custom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom/)
 * [empty](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/empty/)
 * [field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/field/)

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-an-empty-custom-field/#post-2292119)
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