Title: Custom Fields
Last modified: August 29, 2017

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# Custom Fields

 *  Resolved [JustDuckyDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justduckydesigns/)
 * (@justduckydesigns)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/)
 * Love this plugin so far! I’m using it for a petition being done by some high 
   school/middle school kids. We don’t need to collect their address, but we’d like
   to collect their age and the name of the school they attend. Is there a way to
   modify the form to change something like the “street” and “city” fields to instead
   say “If you are a student – enter your age and name of school you attend” — or
   something like that?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [SpeakOut! Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123host/)
 * (@123host)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9452204)
 * There sure is.
 * In the dashboard > SpeakOut! > Petitions > edit petition page, hide the address
   fields and activate the custom field. You can give that any label you want.
 *  Thread Starter [JustDuckyDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justduckydesigns/)
 * (@justduckydesigns)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9452217)
 * I was hoping to use two fields – rename one for “Age” and one for “Name of School”–
   is there a way to do that? If you tell me where to find the file with the form
   fields, I can figure it out. I understand that any changes I make would be overwritten
   by updates.
 * Thanks.
 *  Plugin Author [SpeakOut! Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123host/)
 * (@123host)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9452242)
 * Have a look at wp-content/plugins/speakout/includes/emailpetitions.php (from 
   memory). If that isn’t it get back to me and I will actually look it up :o)
 *  Thread Starter [JustDuckyDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justduckydesigns/)
 * (@justduckydesigns)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9452270)
 * That’s not it – I already looked at that, it was my first thought as well. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [JustDuckyDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justduckydesigns/)
 * (@justduckydesigns)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9452274)
 * Sorry – I didn’t see that it was within “Includes” – I’m trying that right now.
 *  Thread Starter [JustDuckyDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justduckydesigns/)
 * (@justduckydesigns)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9452299)
 * I was able to edit that file and change the field name that displays on the form/
   petition to be “Age” and “Name of School”. Now one more issue – the database 
   that stores the information on people who sign the form still uses the “City”
   and “State” as the field labels. Is there a way to change that – so that when
   we store the information we can import it into our Mailing List form with the
   correct field labels?
 * Thanks so much for the great support!
 *  Plugin Author [SpeakOut! Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123host/)
 * (@123host)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9452393)
 * Great!
 * BEWARE! There be dragons in the database. Changing the name of a database field
   WILL have repercussions elsewhere in the plugin. You will have to edit right 
   through the plugin so that any database updates or retrieves know the new name
   of the field. I strongly advise against it unless you _really_ know what you 
   are doing.
 * My suggestion is to leave the database field title as is, download the CSV file
   and then edit the field name in the CSV. In fact, generally it doesn’t even matter
   what the field name is, you are going to be importing the data and the field 
   name is usually dropped.
 *  Thread Starter [JustDuckyDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justduckydesigns/)
 * (@justduckydesigns)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9454248)
 * Great advice! I’m pretty good with databases, but I know what you mean – it’s
   better to leave this as is and edit the names after the fact. That’s what I will
   do.
 * Thanks so much for the outstanding tech support!

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-259/#post-9454248)
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