Title: Problems with using custom fields
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Problems with using custom fields

 *  Resolved [FrankJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankjohnson/)
 * (@frankjohnson)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-using-custom-fields/)
 * Friends:
 * I’m having some problems getting the WP Pipes plugin to accomplish what I’m after.
   Here’s what I’m trying to do:
 * 1. Pull in some articles from numerous sites and create posts with a status of
   draft.
 * 2. Read the articles that are pulled in within the WordPress backend.
 * 3. Select seven articles a week to feature on the home page of my site. Either
   discard the remaining articles or save them for future use. On the home page,
   I want to display the following for each chosen, featured article:
 * a. the article’s title (linked to the article’s url on the external site)
    b.
   an attribution to the original site in the form of “from {name of original source}”
   c. the date I have published the link to the original article (rather than the
   date the article was published on its own site) d. the featured image from the
   original article (or an image I choose to replace it)
 * The full articles I pulled in from other sites would not be displayed on my website(
   only their titles – linked to their original url and with the name of their original
   source referenced). The contents of the articles would be in the WordPress backend
   but not displayed anywhere on the public site (I realize there will be urls where
   those articles could be reached, but I will not link to those urls anywhere –
   and I may delete the full contents of the original article once I have read it).
 * 4. In a MailChimp weekly newsletter, I will want to display all four items referenced
   above plus a 50-word excerpt from the original article.
 * You can see how I’ve set up the pipe in [this screenshot](http://www.franknjohnson.net/add-new-pipe.png).
 * So far, I’m having these two problems getting the data (I may subsequently have
   issues displaying the data, but I want to make sure I get the correct data first):
 * A. Although I’ve specified that the output of “[so] link” should be the destination
   input for field_567e154c0be3f, the link is not populating that field in the data
   I see in posts created from the external feed.
 * B. I can’t figure out how to put the name of the original source (which, incidentally,
   matches the name of the pipe I created) into the “[di]field_567e15770be40” field
   and thus the name of the original source is not populating that field in the 
   data I see in posts created from the external feed. In looking through this support
   form for information on how to use the Original Source processor, I noted that
   [this screenshot](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B829n4QBUwXdQ1prMzVneVBoT1U/edit?pref=2&pli=1)
   shows a “Text” field which appears to be associated with the Original Source 
   processor, but that field doesn’t seem to be available when I try to use the 
   Original Source processor.
 * Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong and how I might be able to solve 
   those two problems?
 * Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer – it’s much appreciated!
 * Sincerely,
 * Frank Johnson
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pipes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pipes/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Tung Pham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phamtungpth/)
 * (@phamtungpth)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-using-custom-fields/#post-6885829)
 * Hi Frank Johnson,
 * With the kind of your issues, I’m afraid that I need to have your access information
   for checking.
 * Please create a topic at our forum [https://thimpress.com/forums/forum/plugins/pre-sale/](https://thimpress.com/forums/forum/plugins/pre-sale/)–
   > There is the way which you could provide the private information.
 * Best Regards!

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