Title: recognizing pre-existing custom fields
Last modified: August 22, 2016

---

# recognizing pre-existing custom fields

 *  [jedimasta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jedimasta/)
 * (@jedimasta)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-pre-existing-custom-fields/)
 * I’ve been using a custom field manually now for quite some time, but I’ve been
   looking for a way to make it easier for my writers to enter a value. In this 
   case it’s the score for a review.
 * I was successful at creating the field group and field, using the same name as
   the existing field, but the drop down doesn’t recognize and auto-select the value
   from the dropdown on those posts that already have that custom field stored.
 * Any help is appreciated.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-fields/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-fields/)

The topic ‘recognizing pre-existing custom fields’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/simple-fields_fafafa.svg)
 * [Simple Fields](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-fields/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-fields/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-fields/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-fields/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-fields/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-fields/reviews/)

 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [jedimasta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jedimasta/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-pre-existing-custom-fields/)
 * Status: not resolved