Title: Feature Request – Modify Metadata
Last modified: August 15, 2024

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# Feature Request – Modify Metadata

 *  Resolved [Rosso Digital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roberthemsing/)
 * (@roberthemsing)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-modify-metadata/)
 * Thanks so much for resolving the previous support ticket! I thought I open a 
   new thread here to keep things streamlined.
 * I’m not sure if there is a feature request pipeline but it would be amazing if
   the plugin (or the Post Metadata plugin) would also allow the modification of
   metadata. We know we can already delete metadata using your plugin but the modification
   option would be great too.
 * We have one specific use case which might be a bit of an edge case. We use a 
   delivery date picker plugin with WooCommerce but it’s currently still incompatible
   with subscriptions (not your problem of course). So when a customer wants to 
   update the regular date of their subscription delivery we have to set up an AutomateWoo
   flow which runs shortly before the subscription renews to update meta fields 
   of the subscription that way. It’s the only way we’ve figured out that let’s 
   us semi-easily modify the delivery date meta fields without have to going directly
   into the database. If your plugin however would allow the modification of the
   metadata that would make it even easier as we can just change the date meta without
   having to create a whole AutomateWoo flow for it.

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 *  Plugin Author [JS Morisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsmoriss/)
 * (@jsmoriss)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-modify-metadata/#post-17953898)
 * I really don’t see that happening. Modern metadata values are often arrays or
   objects (instead of strings or integers), and providing a reliable editing interface
   for that kind of data would be too much work (it’s a free plugin after all).
 * My suggestion would be to use/create a custom field, then use a filter to read
   that custom field and adjust the order metadata as needed. Updating array or 
   object metadata in code is very easy, and a custom field provide an easy way 
   to edit/capture a single value.
 * js.
 *  Thread Starter [Rosso Digital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roberthemsing/)
 * (@roberthemsing)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-modify-metadata/#post-17953901)
 * Noted! Just thought it was worth asking 🙂 Love your plugins and appreciate that
   they’re free. Thanks so much for the quick responses.

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 * Last reply from: [Rosso Digital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roberthemsing/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-modify-metadata/#post-17953901)
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