Title: Posts losing custom fields
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Posts losing custom fields

 *  [uberdose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uberdose/)
 * (@uberdose)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-losing-custom-fields/)
 * Hi, since WP 2.1, tested on WP 2.1.2 also, some posts lose their custom fields.
   I use them for storing META description and keywords with [Another WordPress Meta Plugin](http://wordpress.uberdose.com/wordpress/another-wordpress-meta-plugin.html).
 * Last night I updated to 2.1.2 and added keywords and descriptions again for all
   posts that were missing them. They are stored as custom fields.
 * 24h later two posts have lost them again. They were the posts getting comments.
 * I’d appreciate any help resolving this one …

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-losing-custom-fields/#post-533962)
 * Are you using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin? This was a known issue with that
   plugin and 2.1.x a while back. Go over and download the absolute latest version
   of UTW to fix this problem.
 * If you are not running UTW, then it may be some other plugin causing it. Verify
   that you have the latest versions of all your plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [uberdose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uberdose/)
 * (@uberdose)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-losing-custom-fields/#post-533988)
 * I’m using and authoring Another WordPress Meta Plugin. In the plugin I’m using
   add_post_meta() to store the data and get_post_meta() to retrieve it.
 * How can a plugin cause the loss of custom field data? I’m curious what UTWs problem
   was …

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 * Last reply from: [uberdose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uberdose/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-losing-custom-fields/#post-533988)
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