Title: Missing “Custom fields” checkbox under Screen options
Last modified: September 28, 2020

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# Missing “Custom fields” checkbox under Screen options

 *  [Nauriskolats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nauriskolats/)
 * (@nauriskolats)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-custom-fields-checkbox-under-screen-options/)
 * I’m running the latest verison of ACF and on my WooCommerce Order’s page I no
   longer can see “Custom fields” checkbox under Screen options that is supposed
   to be there by default.
    When I deactivate ACF – the custom fields checkbox is
   available again. Is this a feature or a bug? Because if this is a feature, then
   it’s a very bad idea since many times I’m storing custom data in custom fields
   and now since they are no longer available, it makes it impossible to store additional
   data. Please fix this issue or let me know if there are some hooks that can be
   used.
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [Nauriskolats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nauriskolats/)
 * (@nauriskolats)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-custom-fields-checkbox-under-screen-options/#post-13461984)
 * I went and started to dig around the code a bit and found out the code responsible
   for the above.
    There is a file located here: **includes/forms/form-post.php**
   In this file there is a function **add_meta_boxes** And there is this piece of
   code:
 *     ```
       if( acf_get_setting('remove_wp_meta_box') ) {
       	remove_meta_box( 'postcustom', false, 'normal' ); 
       }
       ```
   
 * After commenting this out, both “Custom fields” checkbox returns under Screen
   options and Custom fields are visible in the page.
 * If you feel like removing this, please at least consider offering a Setting or
   a filter that we can use to prevent this from happening.
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [Nauriskolats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nauriskolats/)
 * (@nauriskolats)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-custom-fields-checkbox-under-screen-options/#post-13654041)
 * Looking forward to hearing from you on this issue.

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 * [woocommerce order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/woocommerce-order/)

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 * Last reply from: [Nauriskolats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nauriskolats/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-custom-fields-checkbox-under-screen-options/#post-13654041)
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