Title: custom fields, modify db or plugin?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# custom fields, modify db or plugin?

 *  [syncbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syncbox/)
 * (@syncbox)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-modify-db-or-plugin/)
 * I’ve taken a look at the documentation page on Custom Fields, but I have some
   questions:
 * 1) are custom fields only associated with posts?
 * I realize that to retrieve them, you must use special code in the loop, but I’m
   wondering how to associate them only with a specificate category of posts… can
   you get a subset of data from a custom field?
 * 2) can you tap into custom fields elsewhere than with posts?
 * I’m wondering if this is a way to add additional information for a user, for 
   example… or not. If not, does anyone know of a way to do that? For example, let’s
   say I wanted the gender or hometown of a person that signs up (registers) (I 
   know, most won’t give it, but this is a special site where users *would*)…
 * Is there any way to create custom fields for a particular user, then query (elsewhere)
   for a custom field for a specific user_id?

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)

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