Title: Problem With Custom Fields
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem With Custom Fields

 *  Resolved [jmanpa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmanpa/)
 * (@jmanpa)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/)
 * I just successfully migrated a Blogger blog to WordPress but I have a strange
   side-effect from doing so.
 * When I try to “write” a new post, I get 100s of Custom Fields that appear prior
   to me writing anything. The key of each of these is “blogger_blog” and the value
   field is “myblogname.blogspot.com”. There are also 200 custom fields with “blogger_permalink”
   as key and for the value field, the url of each my past posts.
 * Needless to say I don’t want a few 100 custom fields pre-populated each time 
   I try to post. It delays the ability post due to the wordpress script for this
   page spending minutes to populate all the (apparently default) custom fields.
 * How do I remove this behavior?

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 *  Thread Starter [jmanpa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmanpa/)
 * (@jmanpa)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-739673)
 * I think I may have resolved it. Someone can tell me if this was a bad thing to
   do:
 * I went into MySQL and executed the following statement:
 * DELETE FROM `wp_postmeta` WHERE meta_key=’blogger_blog’ or meta_key=’blogger_permalink’
 * so far I haven’t find any undesirable effects and the “write” page is now devoid
   of the offending custom field defaults.
 *  [thecolonialist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecolonialist/)
 * (@thecolonialist)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-740176)
 * I have this same problem. Is there any way anyone could verify that this is a
   good fix?
 *  [thecolonialist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecolonialist/)
 * (@thecolonialist)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-740177)
 * I just tried this and it worked for a day or so but now I’m back to having the
   same problem. Now not only do I need to fix the problem but I am also worried
   that I did something bad in the db if deleting those tables didn’t do it…
 *  [bdayne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdayne/)
 * (@bdayne)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-740180)
 * I had this same problem after upgrading to 2.6 and importing two WP blogs into
   a third one, so maybe it’s a migration issue? Export and import worked fine, 
   better than they have on earlier versions in fact, I have all the posts and comments.
   But custom fields in write > post were insane. Custom enclosure fields were generated
   for every mp3 file linked to in the imported blog – about 60 or so in all – they
   just appeared and I couldn’t delete them.
 * All fixed now and this is a quick thumbs up on the MySql statement from jmanpa!
   I executed the statement changing ‘blogger_blog’ to ‘enclosure’ and meta_key=
   to ‘enclosure_permalink’. I wasn’t really sure whether that last command was 
   necessary or what it would do, but nothing ventured, etc… And it didn’t break
   the blog. It worked.
 *  [renudo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renudo/)
 * (@renudo)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-740187)
 * Same problem here. jmanpa works.
 *  [campclan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/campclan/)
 * (@campclan)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-740200)
 * Thank you so much! You just resolved the nightmare of importing a 30+ author 
   site and discovering a million (only slight exaggeration) custom fields for each
   new post. Add that to the fact that I have to teach the authors how to use custom
   fields in the first place.
 * I had to also add:
 * or meta_key=’blogger_author’
 *  [mountainsage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountainsage/)
 * (@mountainsage)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-740221)
 * could someone please give more detailed instructions for this fix?
 * Thanks.
 *  [sementeria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sementeria/)
 * (@sementeria)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-740244)
 * It worked perfectly for me.
 * Go to phpMyAdmin and run the sql query:
 * DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘blogger_blog’ OR meta_key = ‘blogger_permalink’
   OR meta_key = ‘blogger_author’

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-custom-fields/#post-740244)
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