Title: Dealing with custom fields
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Dealing with custom fields

 *  [cotp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cotp/)
 * (@cotp)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dealing-with-custom-fields/)
 * Hello everyone
    1) I am trying to get to understand how to use custom fields.
   Not talking about display for now but only the implementation inside the backoffice(
   admin panel)
 * I went on manage an article and added a custom field
    example:
 * key:color value:pink
 * Then I went to another article and selected the color field and added the value:
   blue
 * Now what I woul like to do is when I go on a third article
    and select again 
   the color field to have some kind of drop down menu (could be ajax) to display
   a choice between the values I already have entered (example blue and pink) a 
   bit the way like tags or categories work…
 * Anyone who could give me a hint on what to do ?
 * Since if someone enters a typo example plink it would be considered a different
   color.
 * 2) Is it possible after that to display let’s say all the posts that have a pink
   color ?
 * 3) I was thinking using some of this fields to also add info that I will only
   need in the admin section, how is it possible to show only this info to admins?
 * Thanks in advance
 * Cotp

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dealing-with-custom-fields/#post-665873)
 * I don’t think Custom Field GUI offers a feature quite like that, but it may still
   fill the bill:
 * [http://rhymedcode.net/projects/custom-field-gui](http://rhymedcode.net/projects/custom-field-gui)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dealing-with-custom-fields/#post-665873)
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