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Posted by Michael Piercy
Michael Piercy
1,756 Points

Embed Custom Fields in Post Types?

Is there a way to understand the process of embedding custom fields to post-types without using third party plugins such as Advance Custom Fields plugin? I'd like to have this functionality built in to my plugin.

For example, give a custom post type (let's say book or movie) a star rating (5 stars etc). This is to be set in the admin area - not the public facing side.

Any ideas?

2 Answers

Michael Piercy
Michael Piercy
1,756 Points

For those interested, it seems that what I'm actually looking for are Meta Boxes.

Here's reference information from the Wordpress Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box

The example given on that page works straight out of the box.