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Edit Custom Fields

Description

This plugin offers a simple interface to edit or delete any Custom Field names/keys you may have created in the post/page editor.

Deleting a Custom Field also deletes the associated content, so use with caution!

This is not meant to be a powerful plugin in the vein of Advanced Custom Fields.

Only users with role Editor and above have access to this plugin.

Installation

  1. Upload edit-custom-fields.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Reviews

སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཞི་པ། 30, 2024
Although the plugin hasn’t been tested with the current WordPress release, it did the job for me. It cleaned up several unused CPT orphans and cleared them from my website’s database without causing any problems. Hope the developer will test and update the plugin with the current version of WordPress so it feels a bit more secure to use.
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་པ། 15, 2023 3 replies
Not impressed. Description says “This plugin offers a simple interface to edit or delete any Custom Field names/keys you may have created in the post/page editor. Deleting a Custom Field also deletes the associated content, so use with caution!”It only deleted the CONTENT from a custom field, but it definitely does NOT delete the field.I have so much meta-garbage collected over the years, and there is obviously no way to clean this mess up.
སྤྱི་ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། 23, 2021
Was thinking of deleting the custom fields one by one on a large site. Could delete them all in one go because of this plugin. Time Saver!
སྤྱི་ཟླ་ལྔ་པ། 14, 2021
As others have said – does the job well for cleaning out junk from past themes + plug-ins. Deserves the praise. To have manually ‘cleaned’ 100s of posts from years of WP remodeling would have pushed me over the edge. THANK YOU for this plug-in!
སྤྱི་ཟླ་གཉིས་པ། 12, 2021
It does exactly what you can expect! Thank you!
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Contributors & Developers

“Edit Custom Fields” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.1.10

  • Update text domain

0.1.9

  • More sanitiziation and hardening

0.1.8

  • Use wp_verify_nonce to protect against CSRF
  • Use sprintf for translations.

0.1.7

  • Use $wpdb->prepare

0.1.6

  • Add nonce checks

0.1.4

  • Fixed regression from 0.1.2 onward that broke plugin when custom field key was
    used in multiple posts.

0.1.3

  • Removed broken function that broke 0.1.2
  • Fixed some Markdown formatting errors in readme.

0.1.2

  • DUH: Allowed for db table prefixes other than wp_ :self-flagellates:
  • Embarrasing typo on “Confirm Custom Field Deleteion” screen :S
  • Querying by ID now rather than key so that keys with spaces work smh

0.1.1

Fixed the stable tag in the readme.txt file.

0.1

Initial release.