How to make custom field viewable at page edit screen?

Hi!

I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do here.

Did you create the new custom fields using a plugin? And you assigned those to appear on with post_type = pages. Then they're not showing up?

OR

Did you create custom post types and have them displaying in the front-page.php. If this is the case, you will not be able to edit the custom post type content from the homepage since the code you are displaying on the site homepage is actually custom post type content and not static page content.

Does that address your problem.

ps - Always use the 'wordpress' tag when posting WP topics! I went ahead and added it for you :)

Hi Zac,

thanks for your reply and the hint with the tag - will do so.

I followed your videos to "Develop a WordPress theme" and also installed the advanced custom fields plugin in and the custom post type ui plugin.

From the front end side (internet visitor) everything is working. I used the front-page.php with post_type = > 'homepage'. 'homepage' is a custom post type which contains 3 fields. I already have the "standard editor" not displaying at the pages-->all pages --> home edit screen. (used the remove_meta_box('inside','page','normal'); command within functions.php. This is because the content for that page will only be generated through the content of the custom post type fields within the group 'homepage'.

This 'Homepage' edit page now offers the option to create new custom field content for the 'homepage' group. But the existing custom fields content is not displayed there. It will only show up when I enter the extra page from the dashboard on the left side, which is named like each custom field group, in that case 'homepage'.

What I try is, that the content editor not has to use 2 different places to edit content for one page. I wonder if there is a better way to do this or if I have to generate an own metabox (by a plugin) and then customize the edit page screen.

I think, that I need a static page, like 'Homepage', to have a place where the custom fields can be displayed. If not, to edit all the content through the custom field menu would be fine - but I don' know hot should that work.

Maybe a kind of special problem, because it is a full static page, without blog content. I just want to make it as simple as it could be for the content editor on the custom side.

Hi,

I think it might be better to create unique custom post type and fields for what you need. You can also customize what fields show up when editing what types of content as well as the ability to hide standard fields like the content field.

Hope that helps?

Thank you Zac, I will check this and work on it.