[wp-hackers] Hooks for adding permanent inputs for custom feilds

[Mark Jaquith]

On Jun 16, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> That's a pretty sweet plugin, it'd be interesting to have that sort  
> of functionality available in core, even without a GUI.

+1

Provide API functions that plugins can use to add custom field GUI.   
Text, checkbox, radio buttons, etc.  Ability to specify a filter  
callback for data validation.  Ability to specify default data for  
required fields.  Automatically take care of a custom nonce form  
field to prevent updates on non-wp-admin firing of the save hooks.

I throw together a lot of plugins that hinge on custom fields... but  
it's a royal pain to code an interface for each one.  So I usually  
don't. :-)

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