Title: Create author custom field? Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Create author custom field? * [j4ze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j4ze/) * (@j4ze) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/) * I really like this plugin, but i have a small request or modification i would like to make. * When i use the import to post, a custom field is generated with a value according to the url of the original post (from the authors site). What i would like is for the importer to also generate a custom field for the name of the author, and the url to his/her frontpage. * I’ll try to give you an example: * Author, writes a post -> I import the post (feed to post) -> Importer generates Custom field 1, the post url (www.author1.com/post) -> importer generates field 2 (key=author, value= author name) -> importer generates field 3 (key=source, value=www.author1.com) * When those fields are generated, i believe i can use the custom fields to make my frontpage show the posts in the specific way i want to. * Featured pic Title (links to custom field 1) Excerpt By “author” (custom field 2) – links to author url (custom field 3) Date+time of the post (still working on that) * Hope you kind of get the idea of what i want and that you can point me in the right direction in how to achieve it. * [My site](http://selectedbloggers.cphadsdemo.dk) * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/#post-4243830) * you would have to change a lot of code in the plugin to make this work..the fields are there to do this (e.g., $items[‘myauthor’], etc, which you see in the default template (in the templates folder). * Thread Starter [j4ze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j4ze/) * (@j4ze) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/#post-4243996) * There must be somewhere i can see how the existing custom field for the source link, is created, and then copy-paste that, swapping the $thisLink parameter with $myAuthor or something like that? * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/#post-4243997) * I’m not sure..you can create your own template and swap out whatever you like( just be sure to save the template using the template options admin. * Thread Starter [j4ze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j4ze/) * (@j4ze) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/#post-4243998) * It cant be that difficult, can it? * I’ve found the original link custom field to be in the import_post.php file. For some reason its within an if loop, so unfortunately i can’t just add another custom field. * I’ve figured out that this must be the code i need to insert: * `add_post_meta($post_id, 'rssmi_author_link', $items['myauthor'], true);` * i just need help to figure out where to insert it, and im not sure that my value is correct ” $items[‘myauthor’] ” * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/#post-4243999) * your value is correct..you can try adding that inside the loop..it will add it to the database but I’m not sure what you want to do after that… * Thread Starter [j4ze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j4ze/) * (@j4ze) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/#post-4244000) * What i want is for the plugin to auto-generate a custom field – just like it does with the source-link now. I just want to add a field more, with the authors name as value. * I will try to play around with it, but since I’m not an expert in php coding, i would appreciate any help you could give me. * thank you * Thread Starter [j4ze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j4ze/) * (@j4ze) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/#post-4244001) * Now i got the plugin to add the custom field, but for some reason the value-field is empty 🙁 I’ve tried to use * `add_post_meta($post_id, 'rssmi_author_link', $items['myauthor'], true);` * and * `add_post_meta($post_id, 'rssmi_author_link', $feedAuthor, true);` * but none of them returns a value 🙁 Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Create author custom field?’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wp-rss-multi-importer_a9b8a0.svg) * [WP RSS Multi Importer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-multi-importer/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-multi-importer/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-multi-importer/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-multi-importer/reviews/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [j4ze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j4ze/) * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-author-custom-field/#post-4244001) * Status: not resolved