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

[Tara Star]

jonner.1979671 at bloglines.com wrote:

> --- hackers at wordpress.org wrote:
> 
> I also agree. I was very confused when I
> lost a field that I thought
> 
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>>that I had added. I assumed it would be static
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> and it was completely
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>>against what I thought it would do. Why would I want
> 
> to add a field to
> 
> 
>>a single entry? I can't honestly see any reason to do
> 
> that.
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> I think there's probably situations where you wouldn't want the field
> added to every post entry form (for example, if you had a ton of custom fields
> and didn't want your post form to be 10 pages long), so I think the existing
> interface could be kept, as long as a couple commonly-used fields could be
> designated as static.

Another situation is for example to do what I did with topicexchange 
trackbacks 
<http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/07/19/easier-topicexchange-trackbacks-for-wordpress/> 
-- I don't have topicexchange trackbacks for each post, and I don't have 
the same number of ITE trackbacks either. But otoh, it's also something 
I automated, so I never find myself in the situation of adding "custom 
fields" manually.

I wonder if people /do/ add custom fields manually? or are custom fields 
just used by people like me who then nastily hack wp to use them in a 
more friendly manner?

Steph aka bunny
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http://climbtothestars.org/