Title: Validation on Custom Meta fields
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Validation on Custom Meta fields

 *  [alfie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drtanz/)
 * (@drtanz)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-on-custom-meta-fields/)
 * Would be nice if we had methods to implement validation on custom fields, before
   saving a post.

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 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-on-custom-meta-fields/#post-3000643)
 * Implement them on the save_post hook?
 *  Thread Starter [alfie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drtanz/)
 * (@drtanz)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-on-custom-meta-fields/#post-3000686)
 * You cannot at that point the post would already have been saved.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-on-custom-meta-fields/#post-3000686)
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