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Individual custom fields for each checkmark

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  1. tensegrity
    Member

    I'm wondering how to use checkboxes but so that each checkbox has its own custom field id. As it is right now 10 checkmarks would only have 1 custom field name, which makes it sort of pointless as I can't use the values in the checkboxes separately in the custom field options in wordpress.

    So for example checkboxes right now it's like this:

    Color: red/white/blue

    Then in the custom field options in wordpress it shows

    Color - Yes
    Color - Yes
    Color - Yes

    But what I need is this:

    Red - Yes
    White - Yes
    Blue - Yes

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday February 22, 2012 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    How you are using it is not how it is designed to be used. If you are using the Custom Field configured as a Checkbox Field and you want each checkbox to have a different custom field name used, then you'd have to add a Custom Field for each individual checkbox.

    A Custom Field is a single field that may contain multiple checkboxes. It's still a single field and therefore is treated as such. The checkbox field type in this situation is for use when you have a single custom field name but multiple values.

    It's a single Custom Field, not multiple.

    If you need each checkbox to use a different custom field name to store the post meta data, you'd have to add multiple checkbox fields and add a field for each checkbox rather than configuring multiple checkboxes on a single field.

    Posted 12 years ago on Saturday February 25, 2012 | Permalink