Title: Custom Fields auto-delete
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Fields auto-delete

 *  Resolved [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * (@ericmann)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-auto-delete/)
 * I built a custom theme that uses several custom fields in posts. Some add downloadable
   images, others parse YouTube videos. Everything seems to work fine (authors can
   create, edit, save, and delete information from these fields) and we haven’t 
   had any major problems.
 * Then one day all of the data disappeared. It was spontaneous, and not linked 
   to any plug-in or core updates. The data in the custom fields for several posts
   simply vanished.
 * Has anyone else seen this behavior? What could be causing it?

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-auto-delete/#post-1242073)
 * Have you checked to see if any of your tables need to be repaired?
 *  Thread Starter [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * (@ericmann)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-auto-delete/#post-1242185)
 * I checked the database and everything looks intact. However I did find a bug 
   in the theme which was preventing some of the values from parsing correctly. 
   Oddly enough, this bug wasn’t present when I first delivered the theme, so I’m
   not sure what changed.
 * Thanks for the DB tip, apljdi!

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 * [custom field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-field/)
 * [custom theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-theme/)
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 * Last reply from: [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-auto-delete/#post-1242185)
 * Status: resolved

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