Title: Adding extra post fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding extra post fields

 *  Resolved [kieranmcclung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kieranmcclung/)
 * (@kieranmcclung)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-extra-post-fields/)
 * Hello,
 * Firstly this is a great little plugin and is working greatly, so many thanks 
   for that. I am however wondering how to add extra fields to the post form? I’ve
   had a quick scan of the forum but couldn’t find anything. I also checked the 
   USP website and found the custom posts articles but this seemed to be talking
   about an older WordPress Version.
 * Now I understand that all these fields are submitted as custom fields so is it
   a case of hacking the user-submitted-posts.php file and adding extra fields that
   way or is there an easier method?
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * Thank you.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-submitted-posts/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-submitted-posts/)

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 *  [adamt19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamt19/)
 * (@adamt19)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-extra-post-fields/#post-4121597)
 * Did you find an answer to this? I want users to be able to provide their e-mail
   address…
 *  [downfast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/downfast/)
 * (@downfast)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-extra-post-fields/#post-4121599)
 * Well if you really need a quick solution for your field such as ask for an email,
   you could give up of one of the current fields and just change the text into 
   Email.
 * e.g. Find in the plugin files where the form field says Post URL and change it
   to: Your email and remove the link format
 *  Thread Starter [kieranmcclung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kieranmcclung/)
 * (@kieranmcclung)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-extra-post-fields/#post-4121625)
 * What downFast said is probably the best bet for you, I unfortunately had to use
   another plugin as I needed quite a few extra fields and wanted them to feed into
   a custom fields search plugin I have.
 *  [alpha1beta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alpha1beta/)
 * (@alpha1beta)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-extra-post-fields/#post-4121677)
 * I have a custom forked version of this plugin, that has extra fields and works
   with Co-Authors-Plus.
 * I’m pushing the code to github right now:[https://github.com/alpha1/User-Submitted-Co-Authored-Posts](https://github.com/alpha1/User-Submitted-Co-Authored-Posts)
 * Take a look into functions:
    usp_createPublicSubmission usp_checkForPublicSubmission(
   those are for handling a submission) usp_render_form is for adding fields(show/
   hide options). in usp_render_form i have commented my code with <!–Added–>
 * I would love to help the author improve this plugin and create hooks to help 
   this kind of development, but either way I’ll be happy to help more with this.
   If the author is not interested, i’ll provide my own updates and a real fork.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-extra-post-fields/#post-4121786)
 * Awesome, alpha1beta — thank you for sharing 🙂

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 * [custom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom/)
 * [custom fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-fields/)
 * [extra](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/extra/)
 * [extra fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/extra-fields/)

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 * Last reply from: [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-extra-post-fields/#post-4121786)
 * Status: resolved