Title: Plugin to hack in custom fields when using XMLRPC?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin to hack in custom fields when using XMLRPC?

 *  [paulh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulh/)
 * (@paulh)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-hack-in-custom-fields-when-using-xmlrpc/)
 * Is there any way to use custom fields when using an external blog editor? I suspect
   XMLRPC has no provisions for the custom data fields, so….
 * I have an idea for how to sneak them in using a plugin, but unfortunately, I 
   have no idea how to work the custom field part.
 * The idea is to use a system similar to what Scott Reilly’s “Hide or Cut Post 
   Text” plugin does. Simply use tags like:
 * `<!--customfield="var:value"-->`
 * … in the body text, hook into an action like edit_post and then work some magic
   to add the custom fields. That last part is where I’m stuck.
 * Is this even a workable idea? If so, could someone point me to some code that
   might help?

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