WordPress custom fields are a fantastic feature of WordPress, which allow you to use WordPress as a general Content Management System (CMS) for your blog or WordPress powered site.
Custom fields are little “bits” of information which you can store alongside a WordPress post, or page. A custom field has two components:
- A key/value “pair”
- Key is the name of the meta data element (eg. image)
- Value is the information itself (eg. “myphoto.jpg”)
In my recent talk at WordCamp Fraser Valley 2009, I give an overview of using Custom Fields, in my presentation titled “Using Custom Fields for Fun and Profit”. Here are the slides used in the demo:
Download sample code from the demo
Here is video of the entire presentation:
[flv:/screencasts/wordcamp1/wordcamp1.mp4 620 465]
Thanks for sharing the slides Dave. Lots of people commented on your presentation later in the day. I’m sorry I missed it. Lots of great information.
@Jeff:
Hi Jeff, thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it. Hope to run into you at a future event!
Hi Dave, Great talk and nice to have the slides and the code to try and use this feature for my organization’s website re-do in WP.
Can you tell me by looking at this page, http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/index.html
if i can handle the display of our quarterly using custom fields? i think to keep the page manageable i may have to restrict each page to four issues…
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@walter:
Hi Walter,
Thanks for your comment — unfortunately, part of it seems to be missing from the post. Please feel free to contact me via e-mail (dave at dazil.com) and I would be happy to give you any feedback.
Thanks,
Dave