Title: Enabling Custom Fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Enabling Custom Fields

 *  Resolved [PandaJuggler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pandajuggler/)
 * (@pandajuggler)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-custom-fields/)
 * Does anybody know if it’s possible to enable Custom Fields on the Download post
   type? The option doesn’t appear in the Screen Options tab as with a standard 
   post.
 * I was hoping to add a product image using a custom field instead of the content
   form.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/)

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 *  [Sunny Ratilal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunnyratilal/)
 * (@sunnyratilal)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-custom-fields/#post-3835656)
 * Hi,
 * This easily be done with this snippet from here: [https://gist.github.com/sunnyratilal/5764997](https://gist.github.com/sunnyratilal/5764997)
 *  Thread Starter [PandaJuggler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pandajuggler/)
 * (@pandajuggler)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-custom-fields/#post-3835662)
 * Thanks for a quick and helpful reply Sunny, I now have my Custom Fields.
 * I notice that, now the Custom Fields box appears, it’s already populated with
   some Easy Digital Downloads key/value pairs which are duplicates of boxes that
   already appear (Price and Product Notes). It’s not a big deal, but is that an
   unavoidable outcome?
 *  [Sunny Ratilal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunnyratilal/)
 * (@sunnyratilal)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-custom-fields/#post-3835665)
 * That’s just all the post meta – don’t delete that!
 * Unfortunately, no, unavoidable.
 *  Thread Starter [PandaJuggler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pandajuggler/)
 * (@pandajuggler)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-custom-fields/#post-3835673)
 * The post meta is safe and intact 🙂 I added some custom fields using code a while
   back before finding out about the built-in custom field functionality, so I’ve
   seen the duplication before – and probably made that mistake before 😀 Thanks
   again.
 *  [Sunny Ratilal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunnyratilal/)
 * (@sunnyratilal)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-custom-fields/#post-3835674)
 * No worries, glad to be of assistance. 🙂

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Sunny Ratilal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunnyratilal/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-custom-fields/#post-3835674)
 * Status: resolved