Title: Enable Adding of Custom Fields
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Enable Adding of Custom Fields

 *  Resolved [cogdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cogdog/)
 * (@cogdog)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-adding-of-custom-fields/)
 * I am designing a new site where users with author role can add information to
   posts via custom fields (it needs to be formatted an exact way, and using meta
   data will ensure consistency).
 * There is nothing in this Codex I could find that identified what role, permissions
   a user needs to have to add a custom field.

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 *  Thread Starter [cogdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cogdog/)
 * (@cogdog)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-adding-of-custom-fields/#post-773485)
 * Am digging through code and finding little. In /wp-admin/edit-form-advanced the
   form that ajaxes the custom fields calls:
 * do_action(‘dbx_post_advanced’)
 * and I cannot locate any reference to this “dbx_post_advanced” anywhere else.
 * The error message is generated somehwere in the Ajax pile and I have lost my 
   way now in the code.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [cogdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cogdog/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-adding-of-custom-fields/#post-773485)
 * Status: resolved

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