This is because it is not getting saved into database,
i personally use ACF (http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/) they are like custom fields but more powerful and more flexible with good tutorial documentation/wiki to help you setup
Thanks Robin.
Yeah, I tried ACF first. Followed all the info I could find, created a new field group but wp threw an error for the plugin when trying to publish new posts. Fixed that by registering the new fields in the functions.php. Also created a custom post type and added the php ACF suggested. But the common problem I seem to have is any value you add to a custom field just disappears when saving or publishing a post, and never shows on the post, unless I’ve set a default value for it.
Must be something basic I’m just not getting.
as such with ACF u should not to go and do manual work on functions.php (always had worked perfectly for me)
Someone has suggested this fix try it out
1. Open file – plugins\advanced-custom-fields\core\actions\input_save.php
2. Go to line number “78”
3. Comment out the line like so
//’id’ => null,
4. Save!
Hadn’t seen that Robin – I’ll give it a try, but it will have to wait a bit
Thanks
I did a project sometime back where i added extra fields if the above doesnt work you can take a cue from this code
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add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
function extra_user_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
<h3><?php _e("Extra profile information", "blank"); ?></h3>
<table class="form-table">
<tr>
<th><label for="gender"><?php _e("Gender"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="gender" id="gender" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'gender', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Enter your Gender."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr><tr>
<th><label for="designation"><?php _e("Designation"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="designation" id="designation" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'designation', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Please enter your designation."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr></table>
<?php }
add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );
function save_extra_user_profile_fields( $user_id ) {
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) ) { return false; }
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'gender', $_POST['gender'] );
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'designation', $_POST['designation'] );
}
Hey Robin
Had another go, re-installed ACF but same error,
‘Fatal error: Call to a member function update_value() on a non-object in /homepages/44/d424921357/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/acf.php on line 721’
and it doesn’t seem to have the file you indicated earlier?
“Open file – plugins\advanced-custom-fields\core\actions\input_save.php”
Maybe that’s the problem? Just installed it through the wp dash.
…….. good grief! Way out of my depth here.
Thought it would be easy to add a “price” field to my posts, but maybe not.
Probably going to have to stick with my original option of woocommerce or marketpress.
But thanks for trying to help 🙂
Cheers
It works fine for me all the time 🙁 not sure where the problem is coming for u
if u want to add only two fields its not worth installing woocommerce or marketplace
use a simple shopping cart plguin — http://getshopped.org/
Bit of a breakthrough (I think).
1. Created a field group with 1 field (price) as text input & saved
2. Selected create php option in settings & added code to functions.php
3. Added ‘<h1><?php the_field(‘price’); ?></h1>’ to my post template
Ended up with 2 price fields! But at least saving the post didn’t crash. Deleted the original field I created to remove the second price entry & it seems to be working………..
Great i am glad it sorted out 🙂
