This article describes how to work with WordPress custom fields, also called post meta. In it, we describe how to use WordPress’s post meta PHP functions, especially get_post_meta() and update_post_meta(), and provide in-depth code demos as well as practical advice for working with custom fields tools like Pods and Advanced Custom Fields.

A guy named Anh read our article on custom taxonomies and custom fields, and contacted us pointing to a similar article he wrote on his own site. His article’s good—what I like about it, specifically, are the bolded key points on the differences between taxonomies and fields, such as:

This article looks at the two major systems for adding data to posts in WordPress: custom taxonomies and custom fields. Since some needs can reasonably by solved by either custom fields or custom taxonomies, we’ll use a practical example—a movie review site—to help define overall principles for when it’s best to use each tool.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been having great fun with the new Nometet.com design. It’s now sporting a feature that allows the author to set a custom background for the post just by uploading an image. This image doesn’t even need to be the correct size; that’s all done on the fly. Uploading isn’t hard either; I’ve implemented an uploader that sits inside a meta box so the hardest bit is choosing the image! In this post we’ll have a look at how it’s done.

In this post we’ll look at how to understand just how to use WordPress “as a CMS” effectively and efficiently.

SEO is something I’ve discussed before here on [wp], but here we’re going to dive into a slightly more specific area: post titles, urls and title tags.

Whilst considering the best way to show off all the content effectively on WPShout, a thought occurred to me – why not have quotes from articles popping out on the sidebar? In the end I decided against the idea, but I thought I’d write it up for all to see. I’m writing this a bit differently – good, bad? Please do let me know.

Creating the options pages is something we’ve touched upon previously here on [wp], and whilst developing my soon-to-be-released WordPress [theme], Biblioteca, I wanted to add some options to the post writing page, and in this post I’m going to be sharing how I did it.

Custom fields are what turns WordPress from a blogging platform to a CMS. Want to do just about any project on WordPress but not sure it is up to the job? Custom fields are the answer. In this post, there are ten awesome things to do with custom fields in WordPress.

Whilst building the exciting new version of Nometech (to be launched very, very soon!) [update – it has launched, this is it!], I needed a way of displaying a random 300×250 advert in the sidebar. After a bit of Google-ing to no avail, something came to me –  ‘why not use custom fields?!‘. Really, why not! In this post I’ll show you how to display a random advert in WordPress using custom fields and a couple of posts you’ve already written.