Title: Adding Options For When People Submit A Post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding Options For When People Submit A Post

 *  [jbh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbh/)
 * (@jbh)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-options-for-when-people-submit-a-post/)
 * Hey,
 * In my plug-in, I am going to allow people to choose actions
    before they submit
   a post. Should I focus on just editing the template/post page from wordpress 
   files or is there a specific method I can use from the codex to control actions
   and display my pull-down options that they can choose from?
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [jbh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbh/)
 * (@jbh)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-options-for-when-people-submit-a-post/#post-1282897)
 * In short, I just need to know which support documentation will show me how to
   edit the single.php/new post template without having to edit the actual page 
   itself when I create my plug-in function.
 * Thanks
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-options-for-when-people-submit-a-post/#post-1282901)
 * > display my pull-down options
 * Could you use [Custom Fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields) for that.
   Then you could use plugins such as:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-taxonomies/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-taxonomies/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/supple-forms/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/supple-forms/)
 *  Thread Starter [jbh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbh/)
 * (@jbh)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-options-for-when-people-submit-a-post/#post-1282905)
 * Thanks for your reply
 * Since I am developing a plug-in, I can look into how they do it.
    I just am trying
   to learn more the way to tell wordpress “add my fields to your ‘new post’ section
   without me editing your pages
 * I’ve learned how to work with the loop and create admin panels, I guess this 
   is my last ‘challenge’. Ty for the link, I will check out the ‘custom fields’
   to see if it can help.
 * It’s just hard to wrap my brain around what to do as there is so much documentation,
   which isn’t a bad thing 😉

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 * Last reply from: [jbh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-options-for-when-people-submit-a-post/#post-1282905)
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