Comments on: How to Keep the Custom Fields Area Uncluttered When Using WordPress Meta Boxes

By: metaboxman

metaboxman — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:47:08 +0000

Hi Dimas,

I tried removing the underscore _ in front of the name but the fields associated with the metabox don’t show up in the custom fields box, any idea why this might be so?

By: Dimas

Dimas — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:26:42 +0000

James, you either have the choice to use the custom fields area as is or you can create custom meta boxes, in my opinion the best practice is to create custom meta boxes. The tip above basically allows you to hide the inner var names from appearing in the custom fields area, which you really do not need if the end user is going to be interacting with the vars/values in a custom meta box anyway. Have a look at my WPAlchemy PHP Class which will aid you in meta box development.

By: James Tryon

James Tryon — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:11:13 +0000

Is this best practice?

It seems to be the only blog post i have found about the topic and that seems a little hacky.

Is there other ways to do this?

By: Zek

Zek — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:18:41 +0000

Thanks, this is really useful.