Comments on: Jazz Up Your Site: 28 Ways To Use WordPress Custom Fields

By: Fort Collins

Fort Collins — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:29:18 +0000

2 years old and still very relevant. Thank you for the TOOT!. I like Justin’s idea of adding footnotes by custom fields. I would interested to know if he ever did it…

By: AlexVerse » Blog Archive » The Power of Wordpress Custom Fields

AlexVerse » Blog Archive » The Power of Wordpress Custom Fields — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:07:35 +0000

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By: daved

daved — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:32:00 +0000

also, this is a link for a mini-guide about using custom fields for building a custom app

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:22:06 +0000

Thanks for the link to my post.

Another new idea I’m toying with is adding footnotes by custom fields. There are probably plugins to handle this, but why use a plugin when we could code it right into the theme ourselves?

A technique that I’ve been using for a long time is defining the title, meta description, and meta keywords with custom fields. This way, I don’t have to use an SEO plugin.

By: BoitesJaunes

BoitesJaunes — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:33:12 +0000

I want to create pages that will display it’s content and under that show articles in a certain category. I’m using the custom field to asign the category value.

Example :

(I want the “3″ from the category to be the value of my custom field, key name : “post_category”)

‘< ?php query_posts("cat=3&showposts=10"); ?>‘
‘< ?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>‘
‘< ?php the_title(); ?>‘
‘< ?php endwhile;?>‘

–

How do I do that?

Please help!

By: ThomasKr

ThomasKr — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:19:29 +0000

Is it possible to insert all the code into a custom field to post a clickable image in the excerpt? Otherwise there is no possiblity to insert HTML tags into the excerpt field in the editor.

By: mores

mores — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:20:32 +0000

Use EasyPermGals to simply list all the images of a post that you have attached.
I use it to quickly share photos, without the need for any layouting. Create post, upload images, publish, finished.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easypermgals/

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:51:53 +0000

Marcel: I do plan to post more articles here at Performancing about custom fields, and as I absorb more knowledge about their limits, I’ll probably post that over at my codeprofessor.com site (which is currently dormant). Otherwise that info would be too geeky for Perf.

By: Marcel Pamphile

Marcel Pamphile — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:12:53 +0000

Indeed Raj. I’m a Drupal guy… But I’m very interested in any information you guys have about stress testing WordPress custom forms.

Drupal had flexinodes but it had database issues. Drupal killed flexinodes and developed something better called CCK. CCK forms can handle any amount of data.

But I am still VERY interested in WordPress custom form capabilities, so tell me more.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:27:10 +0000

Marcel: I was wondering that myself. I’m working on a project where any given post (about 100-200 posts) might have 6-20 custom fields. But the site itself is only for research, so it won’t have a lot of traffic.

However, look at it this way. Custom fields are really just database entries. All custom fields are, I beieve, stored in the same database table and “joined” with post id. I can’t see why this would slow things down significantly over, say, having thousands of posts, or getting a spike in traffic. Of course, only a true bench test would prove anything.

By: Marcel Pamphile

Marcel Pamphile — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:36:41 +0000

Nice article

I’m wondering how much data can these custom fields can support – without slowing down.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:43:51 +0000

Submarine: Thanks, but the idea in this post is what you can do with WordPress Custom Fields, not WordPress plugins.

By: Submarine

Submarine — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:23:49 +0000

Hi,

here is a plugin that do the job :

https://categoryicons.wordpress.com

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:02:12 +0000

I’ll be expanding a select few of these uses in more detail, in the near future. If there are any requests, I’ll consider them.

By: webmann

webmann — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:11:34 +0000

Raj, it’s great to get info that is just what I need to know to do a better blogging job.

It’s going to take a few minutes to absorb this post and then I have read 48 Unique Ways to Use WordPress.

RSS feed readers make it so much easier to find useful content.

By: asshur

asshur — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:48:37 +0000

Thanks for your sharing, This is a great post

By: ZIble

ZIble — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:10:38 +0000

Great jazzify list Raj Another cool tool is zoom on image hover with Magic Zoom. It's free for non-commercial blogs. If you're using Wordpress, you can also add nicely formatted social bookmark links. It's free.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:45:18 +0000

One other powerful reason to use custom fields: it gives you the ability to add semantical value to various bits of data. The semantic web is aided by content that is structured, and this can be achieved by applying markup tags to info that is otherwise just a block of characters (to a computer, that is).

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:42:45 +0000

Greg: I’m not sure what you’re asking. Is that in reference to item #5, 24, or something else?

By: homebizseo.com Greg

homebizseo.com Greg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:03:08 +0000

The 28 ways to improve a blog was loaded with content. What affiliate program would you start with if you only wanted to add 1?

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:53:37 +0000

I will expand on (almost) any example in a future post, if there are any requests.

By: logosamurai

logosamurai — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:37:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing, Raj.

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:37:28 +0000

wow. thanks for all the hard work you put into this article Raj. Makes a few of my upcoming jobs much easier.