One of the things that makes WordPress so powerful as a content management system is that the post_meta table starts as a nearly blank slate that you can easily add custom meta fields to. How you use it can be determined by a use case-specific plugin, like WooCommerce, or using a custom fields plugin like Custom Fields Suite or Pods to create your own fields.In some cases, you can mange WordPress meta data on your own using the variety of functions WordPress provides for adding post meta fields and populating their data. In this post I will be covering the basics of passing data into the post_meta table.What I am showing in this article is limited by intention.
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Adding Custom Fields To WordPress Programmatically
