Title: [Plugin: Front-end Editor] Saving overwrites custom field data?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Front-end Editor] Saving overwrites custom field data?

 *  [Xavvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skinny-latte/)
 * (@skinny-latte)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-saving-overwrites-custom-field-data/)
 * Been racking my brains for **ages** over this one. Couldn’t work out why some
   of my data for my posts kept going missing. The only thing I can think of is 
   that every time I edit a post on the front end using this plugin it saves **only**
   data in WordPress’ default fields. eg post content, title etc
 * But if you’ve added your own custom fields using a plugin such as [Verve Meta Boxes](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/verve-meta-boxes/)
   it seems to wipe that data :S
 * Extremely frustrating. Is there any way to make the plugin make changes to just
   the field you are editing? So when you edit the content, it only saves the changes
   to the content. Or am I loooking at it frmo the wrong angle?
 * Have lost a quite a bit of work to this over the past few days.
 * On the whole, awesome plugin though!
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-saving-overwrites-custom-field-data/#post-1850466)
 * Notice how the custom fields added with the native WP interface are not affected.
 * The Verve Meta Boxes plugin should check is_admin() and DOING_AJAX before attempting
   to save its custom fields.
 *  Thread Starter [Xavvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skinny-latte/)
 * (@skinny-latte)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-saving-overwrites-custom-field-data/#post-1850568)
 * Thanks for your reply scribu. Hopefully the Verve Meta Boxes plugin will be updated
   soon to fix this….

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 * Last reply from: [Xavvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skinny-latte/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-saving-overwrites-custom-field-data/#post-1850568)
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