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

[Graham Walker]

I'd love this; it's especially useful for group blogs where the idea
of adding a "custom field" scares some people, but if you could make
certain fields static on the post page, they'd be more likely to add
it.

Perhaps on the post page in the custom field div, there's a checkbox
"Make static" that makes the custom field show up on each new post
page?  (This should also be per-blog as well, obviously, so that's
another column for the post-meta table.)

graham

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:25:23 +0200, Tara Star
<tellme at climbtothestars.org> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >>that I had added. I assumed it would be static
> >
> > and it was completely
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> --
> http://climbtothestars.org/
> 
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