Title: Custom fields to format post data?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Custom fields to format post data?

 *  Resolved [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/)
 * (@vavroom)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-format-post-data/)
 * Ok, I have no idea how easy this would be to do. In fact it may already have 
   been done. Looking through codex, plugins and the forum, I haven’t found any 
   mention of this. Anyone has ideas?
 * Here’s what I want to achieve: I want to provide a “simplified” posting screen
   for my contributors. Some of the options would be available, such as the “Categories”,
   and the photo upload. But the rest would pretty much be limited.
 * I want to provide them with a form where they can type pre-defined data. The 
   fields from that form would then be used to create a post and mix the data from
   the form into html.
 * For example, the form would have fields such as :
    Location, name, date, and 
   title.
 * When the contributor fills the form and clicks “submit”, the data would be inserted
   in a `<dl>` into a post.
 * This is to ensure uniformity of posts (not really a “blog” per se.
 * Is there anything available? if not, how complicated would it be to write such
   a plugin? I can see hurdles, but not being such a php jockey, I’m not sure how
   to go about it. I guess what I’m looking for is a way to insert formatted data
   into a post.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-format-post-data/#post-427243)
 * I dont know what all they are capable of but there is atleast one custom fields
   mod.
 * Heres some general info:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields)
 * Im assuming you want this for caughtya.org? or no?
 * It might be cleaner, in any case, if you want to make it the easiest for people
   that dont neccessarily know what they are sposed to do, if you actually coded
   a new post.php with the form values already present. Of course, thats work too,
   might want to just do the custom fields thing too.
 *  Thread Starter [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/)
 * (@vavroom)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-format-post-data/#post-427244)
 * Cherie, yes, that’s what it’s for. Coding a new post.php would then mean I couldn’t
   post blog entries, would it not?
 * Being really unfamilliar with the code, I have a problem envisaging how I would
   do this.
 * I’ve read about changing the “stuff that appears in the edit box”, but that is
   just so open to people deleting this or that. Hmmm.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-format-post-data/#post-427245)
 * Coding a new post.php would then mean I couldn’t post blog entries, would it 
   not?
 * no not neccessarily, you just wouldnt fill in those fields.
 * i would mess around with the custom fields stuff and see where that gets you.
 * Im not sure what you mean by people deleting this or that?
 *  Thread Starter [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/)
 * (@vavroom)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-format-post-data/#post-427695)
 * Well, I got it done, thanks for the ideas Cherie.
 * I’ve used rc:custom_field_gui plugin, which allowed me to define custom fields
   that allow the user to clearly enter what they have in terms of info.
 * I’ve called each meta element into a `<dl>` that only shows if there is a meta
   with a key of “license”.
 * Which led me to the problem that WP doesn’t search meta. I already had a plugin
   to search Pages, but not metas. Found another plugin (Jerome’s Search) that does
   that. There were a couple other plugins that claimed to do it, but didn’t work.
 * Soooo, happy with this particular issue.
 * Thanks
 *  [lellie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lellie/)
 * (@lellie)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-format-post-data/#post-427721)
 * I’ve made a new version of the custom field GUI if you’re interested – it has
   some additional features – I’m gonna document it, but will get it up soon.
 *  [thedesigncoalition](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedesigncoalition/)
 * (@thedesigncoalition)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-format-post-data/#post-427817)
 * Lellie,
    I am very interested in your version. Can you please send it to me, 
   or point me in the direction of a download? Thanks in advance.

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