Need help with custom fields

This is because it is not getting saved into database,
i personally use ACF (https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/) they are like custom fields but more powerful and more flexible with good tutorial documentation/wiki to help you setup

Thanks Robin.

Yeah, I tried ACF first. Followed all the info I could find, created a new field group but wp threw an error for the plugin when trying to publish new posts. Fixed that by registering the new fields in the functions.php. Also created a custom post type and added the php ACF suggested. But the common problem I seem to have is any value you add to a custom field just disappears when saving or publishing a post, and never shows on the post, unless I’ve set a default value for it.

Must be something basic I’m just not getting.

as such with ACF u should not to go and do manual work on functions.php (always had worked perfectly for me)

Someone has suggested this fix try it out

1. Open file – plugins\advanced-custom-fields\core\actions\input_save.php
2. Go to line number “78”
3. Comment out the line like so
//’id’ => null,
4. Save!

Hadn’t seen that Robin – I’ll give it a try, but it will have to wait a bit

Thanks

I did a project sometime back where i added extra fields if the above doesnt work you can take a cue from this code

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add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );

function extra_user_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
<h3><?php _e("Extra profile information", "blank"); ?></h3>

<table class="form-table">
<tr>
<th><label for="gender"><?php _e("Gender"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="gender" id="gender" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'gender', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" />

<span class="description"><?php _e("Enter your Gender."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr><tr>
<th><label for="designation"><?php _e("Designation"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="designation" id="designation" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'designation', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Please enter your designation."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr></table>
<?php }

add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );

function save_extra_user_profile_fields( $user_id ) {

if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) ) { return false; }

update_user_meta( $user_id, 'gender', $_POST['gender'] );
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'designation', $_POST['designation'] );
}

Hey Robin

Had another go, re-installed ACF but same error,
‘Fatal error: Call to a member function update_value() on a non-object in /homepages/44/d424921357/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 721’

and it doesn’t seem to have the file you indicated earlier?

“Open file – plugins\advanced-custom-fields\core\actions\input_save.php”

Maybe that’s the problem? Just installed it through the wp dash.

hmm have you tried following this video
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/docs/tutorials/creating-and-registering-your-own-field/

taking a look now………….

…….. good grief! Way out of my depth here.

Thought it would be easy to add a “price” field to my posts, but maybe not.

Probably going to have to stick with my original option of woocommerce or marketpress.

But thanks for trying to help ??

Cheers

It works fine for me all the time ?? not sure where the problem is coming for u

if u want to add only two fields its not worth installing woocommerce or marketplace
use a simple shopping cart plguin — https://getshopped.org/

Bit of a breakthrough (I think).

1. Created a field group with 1 field (price) as text input & saved
2. Selected create php option in settings & added code to functions.php
3. Added ‘<h1><?php the_field(‘price’); ?></h1>’ to my post template

Ended up with 2 price fields! But at least saving the post didn’t crash. Deleted the original field I created to remove the second price entry & it seems to be working………..

??

Great i am glad it sorted out ??