Title: Validation for normal fields?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Validation for normal fields?

 *  Resolved [alek75](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alek75/)
 * (@alek75)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-for-normal-fields/)
 * Hi guys I use ACF and I created a pretty nice interface depending on the post
   category.
 * I would like to have validation for all the fields (title, content, featured 
   image etc)
 * is this the right plugin to do it?
    Seems to me that works just for the ACF.
 * I found something like this too: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/required-fields/screenshots/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/required-fields/screenshots/)
 * thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/validated-field-for-acf/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/validated-field-for-acf/)

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 *  Plugin Author [doublesharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doublesharp/)
 * (@doublesharp)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-for-normal-fields/#post-6396489)
 * I’m not familiar with the other plugin you mentioned, but this is certainly the
   one I would use 🙂
 * There’s a difference between making a field required and validating its contents,
   so it ultimately depends on your requirements.
 * Good luck!
 *  Thread Starter [alek75](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alek75/)
 * (@alek75)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-for-normal-fields/#post-6396507)
 * Hi doublesharp, so if I want to make the validation for the post title or content
   or category to have them mandatory I can do it with ACF validated field?
 * thanks
 *  Plugin Author [doublesharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doublesharp/)
 * (@doublesharp)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-for-normal-fields/#post-6396508)
 * Oops, I misread your message. The Validated Field plugin only works with ACF 
   fields, which in turn are meta fields. The title, content, etc are not meta fields
   and are stored on the post itself and this don’t go through ACF, so this plugin
   won’t provide validation.
 * That said… I do this on some of my sites by hiding the non-meta fields (like 
   title), use a “title” meta field through ACF, then use a hook on the action indicating
   the meta field has been updated to change the “real” value on the post. Works
   well for me so far, and I hope to add this functionality at some point in the
   future.
 * If there are specific things you are looking for please let me know so I can 
   prioritize them. I’m also considering adding some as “premium” features, still
   tbd.
 * Thanks again!
 *  Thread Starter [alek75](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alek75/)
 * (@alek75)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-for-normal-fields/#post-6396534)
 * nice workaround I’ll try it.
    My dream will be to have a full customised add 
   new post page as UX needs to be very easy for our website
 * thanks for the help and yes a premium version of it would be nice

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-for-normal-fields/#post-6396534)
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