Automatically add a custom field when a post is published on WordPress.

Posted by Raman on Jul 2, 2010 in How to, Wordpress | 0 comments

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Most of the WordPress users now use highly code themes that add to the functions and looks of their blogs. And for many such functions you need a add a custom field while publishing any post. Obviously many of us dont like to do this extra thing while blogging.

So here’s a solution to how to do it automatically.

Just goto your Dashboard > Appearance > Editor and look for ‘functions.php’ file.

The only thing you have to do is to edit the cutsom field name on line 6.

add_action(‘publish_page’, ‘add_custom_field_automatically’);
add_action(‘publish_post’, ‘add_custom_field_automatically’);
function add_custom_field_automatically($post_ID) {
global $wpdb;
if(!wp_is_post_revision($post_ID)) {
add_post_meta($post_ID, ‘field-name’, ‘custom value’, true);
}
}

Thats it, now a custom field will be added automatically every time you publish a post on your WordPress blog.