Title: Custom Fields
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Custom Fields

 *  Resolved [reason1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reason1234/)
 * (@reason1234)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-139/)
 * Hi there, When I go to add a new Custom Field on a post there appears to be a
   lot of PopUp information appearing in the Name Pulldown. Although not critical,
   it’s confusing for the site editor. Many thanks, Andrew
 * [https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4fjigv3cxs8n1j/Screen%20Shot%202014-09-03%20at%2012.30.03.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4fjigv3cxs8n1j/Screen%20Shot%202014-09-03%20at%2012.30.03.png?dl=0)
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 *  [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ugotsta/)
 * (@ugotsta)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-139/#post-5251060)
 * Hi [@reason1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reason1234/),
 * Greetings and thanks for posting! The plugin does utilize some custom fields 
   so those would be available in the custom fields list.
 * Do you need that custom field feature to show though? You can hide it through
   the Screen Options tab.
 * Would that work for you?
 * Cheers,
    David
 *  Thread Starter [reason1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reason1234/)
 * (@reason1234)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-139/#post-5251066)
 * Hi David, thanks for getting back to me.
 * Custom fields are something that we are utilising on this site, yes, so turning
   off the display in Screen Options wouldn’t work in this case.
 * There are 3 custom fields that the site editor needs to add values for when adding
   a new post. It’s become a bit more confusing now, I was just checking to see 
   if there’s a way to around this before explaining the change to them.
 * Best wishes, Andrew
 *  [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ugotsta/)
 * (@ugotsta)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-139/#post-5251107)
 * Hi [@reason1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reason1234/),
 * Thanks for your reply, I did a bit of digging and threw together some code that
   can help here:
 *     ```
       add_filter('is_protected_meta', 'popup_is_protected_meta_filter', 10, 2);
       function popup_is_protected_meta_filter($protected, $meta_key) {
       	$test_string = substr( $meta_key, 0, 3 );
       	if ( 'po_' == $test_string ) {
       		return true;
       	}
           return $protected;
       }
       ```
   
 * That should hide all the custom fields that begin with ‘po_’ from that custom
   field meta-box. You can add that to your theme’s functions.php or using Code 
   Snippets:
    [http://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/)
 * How does that work for ya? 🙂
 * Cheers, David
 *  Thread Starter [reason1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reason1234/)
 * (@reason1234)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-139/#post-5251136)
 * DAVID! WOW!.
 * Excellent stuff, really sorry for not getting back sooner. This has made a nice
   clean simple process for the website Editor now. Really appreciate it.
 * Best wishes, Andrew
 *  [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ugotsta/)
 * (@ugotsta)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-139/#post-5251140)
 * Hi [@andrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew/),
 * You’re most welcome, glad that helped! Just let us know if there’s anything else
   we can do to assist. We’ll be here to help. 🙂
 * Cheers!
    David

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-139/#post-5251140)
 * Status: resolved