Title: Required field empty error when not empty/post content doesn’t save
Last modified: January 25, 2021

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# Required field empty error when not empty/post content doesn’t save

 *  Resolved [paigemsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paigemsb/)
 * (@paigemsb)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-field-empty-error-when-not-empty-post-content-doesnt-save/)
 * I am trying to add new posts to a Pod on my employer’s website. The two required
   field within the post are ‘download link’ and ‘file size’. I have filled out 
   both fields, but keep getting an error message that says “Download Link is empty”
   instead of the post being published.
 * When I go back to the post, the download link, file size, and custom URL fields
   are all empty despite the fact I clicked ‘publish’.
 * Someone has previously been able to create a large number of posts this way, 
   but if I open an existing post and change it in any way, or just click ‘update’,
   I get the same error message despite the fact there is once again content in 
   the download link field.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by [paigemsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paigemsb/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Jory Hogeveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keraweb/)
 * (@keraweb)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-field-empty-error-when-not-empty-post-content-doesnt-save/#post-13960007)
 * Hello [@paigemsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paigemsb/)
 * What type of fields are these? File fields? And if so, please share your field
   settings.
 * Cheers, Jory
 *  Thread Starter [paigemsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paigemsb/)
 * (@paigemsb)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-field-empty-error-when-not-empty-post-content-doesnt-save/#post-13960628)
 * Hi [@keraweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keraweb/)
 * They are Plain Text fields that are set as ‘required’. no other settings have
   been changed other than adding a character limit.
 *  Plugin Author [Jory Hogeveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keraweb/)
 * (@keraweb)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-field-empty-error-when-not-empty-post-content-doesnt-save/#post-13965173)
 * Hi [@paigemsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paigemsb/)
 * Sorry, testing this locally. I couldn’t reproduce this behavior.
    It might be
   a plugin compatibility issue. Please read the following page and make sure the
   same error happens with only Pods active: [https://docs.pods.io/faqs/plugin-theme-conflicts/](https://docs.pods.io/faqs/plugin-theme-conflicts/)
 * Cheers, Jory
 *  Plugin Contributor [Bernhard Gronau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quasel/)
 * (@quasel)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-field-empty-error-when-not-empty-post-content-doesnt-save/#post-14047559)
 * Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re
   going to go ahead and close it. If you’re still looking for help with this, please
   do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue
   the conversation over there.
 * Thanks,
    Bernhard

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