Title: Custom fields, relationships
Last modified: November 29, 2018

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# Custom fields, relationships

 *  Resolved [saleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saleb/)
 * (@saleb)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-relationships/)
 * I am very new here, actually, this is my first post. I am not even sure if this
   question should be here or in “Everything else WP”.
 * To be able to avoid trial and error, I have a question about how to create a 
   functionality. There should be posts containing short texts, having custom field
   for author name, and date of publish (author name is not the name of the logged
   in user that posted the content and the date of publishing is not a date when
   the post has been created, but the date the original author created the original
   content). There should also be a page for every author templated in the way to
   list all his works (a relationship).
 * While researching I have installed Pods and Advanced Custom Fileds on a local
   test instance of WP. With ACF, while able to create custom fields I did not find
   how to create a relationship between posts and a page. On the other hand with
   Pods everything worked right away, but when I deleted a custom field created 
   with Pods it left its section in post editor form which I had not been able to
   remove.
 * Question is, which one of these two, or a third one plugin would be best suited
   for my needs. I do not want to avoid learning new things, but I am not yet able
   to recognize shortcomings or advantages of one over the other, over some third
   solution in my use case.

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-relationships/#post-10930534)
 * Sode note: [@saleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saleb/) The person who
   replied is a spammer and has been banned from WordPress.
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-relationships/#post-10930548)
 * Also Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not a Developing with WordPress topic.
   Your asking about plugins and that’s not a coding topic.
 *  Thread Starter [saleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saleb/)
 * (@saleb)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-relationships/#post-10930859)
 * Thank you for your help and sorry for making a bit of mess.
 *  Thread Starter [saleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saleb/)
 * (@saleb)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-relationships/#post-10935239)
 * Thanks for the answer, that’s the kind of information that I have been looking
   for.
    In the meantime, I have downloaded the Meta Box and MB Relationships to
   try to use it. At the moment Pods Framework seems simpler to use, but I must 
   first go through the docs to determine that.
 *  [Jim True](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimtrue/)
 * (@jimtrue)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-relationships/#post-10935248)
 * This video we did about Pods at a local WP Meetup should give you a good overview
   of how Pods works, how relationships work and how to build and prototype something
   fairly quickly in Pods to see if it’s going to work for you or not.

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Jim True](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimtrue/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-relationships/#post-10935248)
 * Status: resolved

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