Title: Adding custom property to Custom Post Type object
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding custom property to Custom Post Type object

 *  [sky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aargh-a-knot/)
 * (@aargh-a-knot)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-property-to-custom-post-type-object/)
 * In the custom theme framework I am developing, I need to associate specialized
   data with a custom post type upon it’s creation for retrieval at a later time.
   I was using the custom post type property “description” to store the data in,
   since it’s not really used for anything. However, this seemed hackish to me, 
   since the data I was storing is not really a description of the post type. It
   dawned on me that I could just create a new property that was more aptly named
   for the information that I was wanting to store during the creation of the post
   type. I tried it out, and it works without issue.
 * My question is: is there any reason _not_ to use a custom property, and stick
   with description? I get that this could be a problem if the WordPress team added
   a property of the same name at some point, but I find this highly unlikely.
 * Any thoughts?

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