Title: Extra fields in WP?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Extra fields in WP?

 *  Resolved [29twelve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/29twelve/)
 * (@29twelve)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-fields-in-wp/)
 * [http://www.29twelve.com/blog/](http://www.29twelve.com/blog/)
 * I have a photoblog (above) which displays a photo (surprise, surprise!), the 
   EXIF (tech photo info) data and sometimes a comment about the photo or a general
   comment. OK so far?!
 * Currently I put the image, exif data and comment in the WP Post itself so don’t
   have that much control over alignment etc. so I hand code each entry so the with
   the text in is left aligned but the image is centrally aligned.
 * I’m getting quite bored of this and want a way to have more control over the 
   text and images, ie. if I want to have different styling for the img (which is
   also a link to the previous image) and the links in the text.
 * My first though was to use CSS to style the img and the links but that doesn’t
   work as they’re in the same DIV!
 * My second thought was to use the custom fields?
 * I have no idea which way to go but I will obviously have to amend each of my 
   posts but that’s not the end of the world!
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [google_earth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/google_earth/)
 * (@google_earth)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-fields-in-wp/#post-391941)
 * If you created a custom field, say post_photo, to hold the link to the photo 
   you could then have a conditional test in the template file to display the image
   if the meta field post_photo was populated.
 * The css to format the image could then be in a separate div to the post content.
 * There is a good plug called custom_field_gui ( at [http://rhymedcode.net/projects/custom-field-gui](http://rhymedcode.net/projects/custom-field-gui))
   which would allow you to have an input box on the write post page into which 
   you could enter the address of the image direct.
 *  Thread Starter [29twelve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/29twelve/)
 * (@29twelve)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-fields-in-wp/#post-391946)
 * Thanks very much for the reply!
 * I have kind of gone down your suggested route and used the plugin you suggest
   but created a custom field called exif, one called comments and one called comments2
   which will hold my comments about the post, and it works a treat!
 * I’m so happy to be using WP though. With such a great community and so many superb
   plugin’s available, it’s fantastic!
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-fields-in-wp/#post-391949)
 * you should also note that you can add a class=”something” tag to most any html
   element (i.e., img, div, span…) at any time. So if you want to custom-style images
   specially, just add a class to the tag, and do the rest in CSS.
 * I custom-built a plugin so that I embed images using a special formatting, and
   it outputs the img tag, and wraps it in a div, and puts the proper class, so 
   that when all is said and done I can style things really easily (and insert them
   really easily!).
 * The EXIF information, if embedded in the image file itself, could also be retrieve
   programmatically rather than embedded in a hand-made custom field…
 * -d
 *  Thread Starter [29twelve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/29twelve/)
 * (@29twelve)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-fields-in-wp/#post-391982)
 * Thanks for the comment david. I am aware that you can add CSS to an image but
   I was trying not to add too many div’s or span’s to my code as it’s cluttered
   enough as it is!
 * The way I’ve found suits me for the time being but I may go down the ‘displaying
   the actual EXIF data’ route at some point. The problem being my earlier images
   I used the save for web function in CS so lost the EXIF data.

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