Title: Adding custom fields at admin-UI
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding custom fields at admin-UI

 *  [tsaulial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsaulial/)
 * (@tsaulial)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-fields-at-admin-ui/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m developing a site for commercial customer, and using the WP for CMS. The 
   idea is that customer can choose how many blog entries there will be at my custom-
   made templates frontpage.
 * Problem is that where and how to create the input for this custom data value?
   There should be a field at admin-site: “Number of posts at front page” and then
   user could enter “5” and then click “save”.
 * I also have other issues where i would like to give the admin a chance to write
   a custom text. Example: Address of a company and user could write those couple
   of lines of text and then at my WP template I would use this specific information
   at (say) footer of the site.
 * Is there any generic solution, or do I need to write my own plugin or something?
 * br,
    Tuomas

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 *  [scribblerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribblerguy/)
 * (@scribblerguy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-fields-at-admin-ui/#post-785023)
 * > Problem is that where and how to create the input for this custom data value?
   > There should be a field at admin-site: “Number of posts at front page” and 
   > then user could enter “5” and then click “save”.
 * There is an overall option in the Admin Panel. Look at the Options > Reading 
   SubPanel, there’s an option called “Blog pages show at most” where one can enter
   any number.
 * Take a look at the [Custom Query String Reloaded](http://moshublog.com/2007/10/30/custom-query-string-reloaded-for-wordpress-23-with-tag-support/)
   plugin. (Don’t use the big download link, but the link in the box above the post.
 *  Thread Starter [tsaulial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsaulial/)
 * (@tsaulial)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-fields-at-admin-ui/#post-785144)
 * Yep, your solution solves the number-of-posts-at-frontpage -problem. But what
   I’m looking for is customizable generic solution to add multiple variables for
   theme to use. Sure these variables could be written to (say) functions.php -file,
   but it’s not very admin-user-friendly solution.

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