[wp-hackers] keywords in main post attributes -- what do you think?

Tara Star tellme at climbtothestars.org
Tue Aug 10 15:49:43 UTC 2004


Owen Winkler wrote:

>>It seems to me that it would be beneficial to be able to 
>>define several "standard" custom fields that are always 
>>visible on every post form (in the same way as the standard 
>>fields are).  You could still add additional custom fields as 
>>necessary, but it would make the commonly-used custom fields 
>>a bit more user-friendly.  For example, if you were using 
>>WordPress to power a simple news site, and you regularly used 
>>a 'photographer' field, it'd be nice to have that show up as 
>>a 'standard' field instead of having to enter it manually every time.
> 
> 
> I completely agree.

I'll second that. Something like "add an extra permanent field". then 
we'd need a way for the user to specify what the field looks like. Text 
input (how big), textarea, checkbox?

Steph



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