Title: Create custom drop downs – wp-admin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Create custom drop downs – wp-admin

 *  [emsbypixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emsbypixel/)
 * (@emsbypixel)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-drop-downs-wp-admin/)
 * Good afternoon,
 * I have created a custom post type ‘news’ and wanted a drop down menu in the wp-
   admin post whereby you can select the author via a dropdown.
 * Its kind of like tagging / taxonomies but i want to populate it with a custom
   post entries all ready in the system.

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 *  Thread Starter [emsbypixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emsbypixel/)
 * (@emsbypixel)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-drop-downs-wp-admin/#post-5123828)
 * *correction
 * I have 2 post types. 1. news. 2. people
 * In the news section i want a dropdown displaying a list of people for selection.
 *  Thread Starter [emsbypixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emsbypixel/)
 * (@emsbypixel)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-drop-downs-wp-admin/#post-5123842)
 * For anyone look at this have a read:
    [http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/create-custom-post-meta-boxes-wordpress/](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/create-custom-post-meta-boxes-wordpress/)

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 * Last reply from: [emsbypixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emsbypixel/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-drop-downs-wp-admin/#post-5123842)
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