Custom Fields in 3.1 disappeared

at the dashboard – top right – did you check to show custom fields?

Thanx, it helped me too.

Thank you so much, if helped me too!

I did. ??

Unless I am looking in the incorrect place, the only options I have are:
Right Now
Recent Comments
Incoming Links
Plugins
Quickpress
Recent Drafts
Wordpress blog
Other wordpress news.

I have them all checked. Obviously I am not in the right place?

Thanks for your help

Wow I thought I had the answer!

I am with CraZy88 – are we missing something else?

Thanks

3.1 hides some screen options on posts & pages edit screensby default. Just turn on the ones you want.
More info here: https://ottopress.com/2011/wp-quickie-metaboxes/

Alternately, put this in your theme’s functions.php if you want the custom fields to show up by default (from this thread):

// Change what's hidden by default
add_filter('default_hidden_meta_boxes', 'be_hidden_meta_boxes', 10, 2);
function be_hidden_meta_boxes($hidden, $screen) {
	if ( 'post' == $screen->base || 'page' == $screen->base )
		$hidden = array('slugdiv', 'trackbacksdiv', 'postexcerpt', 'commentstatusdiv', 'commentsdiv', 'authordiv', 'revisionsdiv');
		// removed 'postcustom',
	return $hidden;
}

(By the way, if you ever customized yours, that’s why they didn’t vanish. It only changed for people still using default.)

OK – I have found it!

Well hidden – thanks for all the support!

>>(By the way, if you ever customized yours, that’s why they didn’t vanish. It only changed for people still using default.)

>>Well hidden –

Correct; it only get hidden for people that never experirmented with hiding some fields themselves.

So its well hidden, inexperienced will not know where to look since they never used that

at the dashboard – top right – did you check to show custom fields?

No, not at the dashboard, on the edit posts page, check under “Screen Options” on the top right

Yes, that was the trick – being on the right page!
Thanks sfraser657

I still have things not working from the change over. My stuff that is live is all working ok but some of my pages on my PC aren’t working!

Slowly working through the challenges!

Thanks for the code.
And I have to ask,
why making people to pull their hair by doing something like this ?
If I didn’t find this page, I’d never be able to make this happen,
as it was an missing option for me.

I would like to be specific
To Show Custom for WordPress 3.1
1. Click “Add new post” in the “Post section“
om Top Right click “Screen Option“
You will find many option and here you will find “Custom field” unchecked.
Just check it and you are good to go.

Thanks would be appreciated
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@dangerous I registered just to tell you thanks… I was searching to understand this custom fields business for ages. Finally got it with your post.