Title: Adding custom special fields
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Adding custom special fields

 *  [picopablo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/picopablo/)
 * (@picopablo)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-special-fields/)
 * Hi, I am following the lesson 3 described in [http://docs.woothemes.com/document/tutorial-customising-checkout-fields-using-actions-and-filters/](http://docs.woothemes.com/document/tutorial-customising-checkout-fields-using-actions-and-filters/)
   about how to add a custom special field but only works for me the first step.
 * The new field is displayed in the checkout page but it does not work the validation
   and the new field is not displayed in the order edition page.
 * Any idea why?
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