Title: Create pod fields programatically
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Create pod fields programatically

 *  Resolved [bonsak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bonsak/)
 * (@bonsak)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-pods-field-programatically/)
 * Hi
    I’m trying to create a new field for a pod called “software” like this:
 *     ```
       $params = array(
   
           'pod' => 'software',
           'name' => 'myNewField',
           'label' => 'myNewLabel',
           'type' => 'text',
       );
   
       $software = pods('software');
   
       $new_field = $software->save_field ( $params, true, true, $db = true );
       ```
   
 * I don’t know what i’m doing wrong but $new_field just returns NULL.
 * Any help appreciated.
 * Cheers
    Bonsak
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Scott Kingsley Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sc0ttkclark/)
 * (@sc0ttkclark)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-pods-field-programatically/#post-4278108)
 *     ```
       $api = pods_api();
       $api->save_field( $params );
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [bonsak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bonsak/)
 * (@bonsak)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-pods-field-programatically/#post-4278109)
 * Great! Thank you.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-pods-field-programatically/#post-4278109)
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