Title: Edit “wp_posts” database table
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Edit “wp_posts” database table

 *  [teocomi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teocomi/)
 * (@teocomi)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-wp_posts-database-table/)
 * Hello I would like to transform wordpress into a rating website, thus I need 
   to add 10-15 custom fields to every post. Is it a good idea to add this fields
   to the wp_posts table, or is it better to just use the custom values (wp_postmeta)?

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 * [custom field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-field/)
 * [custom values](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-values/)
 * [wp_postmeta](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_postmeta/)
 * [wp_posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_posts/)

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