Custom Fields are used for extra metadata of WordPress i.e. if you want to add separate metadata to any page or post then you can take the help of the default custom field of WordPress through which you can add metadata from the dashboard of WordPress.
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Those who are new to WordPress don’t know much about WordPress Custom Fields, so in today’s article, all the important things have been written about that a new designer or new developer should know.
What is WordPress Custom Field?
WordPress Custom Field is also a type of metadata, now here some people may get confused about what this metadata is, so it is explained below, read it carefully.
What is WordPress metadata?
Whenever you read a blog post, you must have noticed that in almost all the posts, at the top there is the title of the post, below it is the publish date of the post and nearby there are the author, category, etc.
Apart from this, if we look at the end of the post, something is written about the author of that post. So we do not write all this information in the editor, we get all this information through WordPress, so all this type of information is called metadata.
Just like posts have metadata, similarly our website pages also have metadata. So, I hope you have understood the metadata well. Now let’s move ahead and talk again about WordPress Custom Field.
If we understand WordPress Custom Field in simple language, then it is a type of metadata that helps you add custom information to your posts and pages. This type of information is not written inside the posts and pages but this information is written only for the posts and pages.
The benefit of WordPress Custom Field
- We can add any type of metadata through the WordPress custom field.
- With its help, we can make even difficult tasks easy.
- With the help of WordPress Custom Field, we can make changes from admin only.
- Through WordPress Custom Fields, we can add different types of metadata to different posts or different pages.
- Through this, any designer or developer can extend the power of WordPress.
- If you use the default custom field of WordPress then it is free.
- Using this we can create attractive options that can be managed from the WordPress dashboard itself.
- We can call WordPress Custom Field completely user-friendly.
How do Custom Fields work?
Every custom field has a key and value, the key tells the name of the custom field and the value tells the definition of that custom field. The key is usually hidden whose job is to identify the custom field.
Custom field keys can be used again and again as they are reusable, you can use any key on a different page also, you just have to select the key from the dropdown and you can add any metadata to it but you cannot use the value of that key again and again.
To use custom fields, you will have to go to the PHP file and work, after you see custom fields on any page or post, there is a process for that too, which we will discuss in further articles.
Conclusion
In today’s article you have been given only basic information about what WordPress customs are and how they work, nothing else has been told to you in this article nor has any practical been explained.
I hope you have understood well how WordPress Custom Fields work and what they are and it has been of some help to you. In the next article, you will be told how you can use the custom fields of WordPress and show any type of data to your audience.
