Custom Fields

Every article, page, and project already comes with a title, a body, an image, and so on — but plenty of sites need something more specific. A recipe site wants a prep time. A product showcase wants a price. An event listing wants a location. Custom fields let you add exactly the extra pieces of information your content needs, without waiting on a developer to build them in.

Setting one up

Head to Settings → Custom Fields. For each content type — Articles, Pages, Projects — you can add as many fields as you need. For each one, you decide:

• A label — what you'll actually see in the editor, like "Prep Time."
• A type — Short text, Long text, Number, a URL/link, a Checkbox (yes/no), or a Dropdown with your own list of choices.
• Whether it's required — so an item can't be published without it filled in, if that matters for your site.

You can also add a new field on the spot while you're already writing something, straight from the Custom Fields tab in the editor — no need to stop and go find Settings first. The one exception is a Dropdown field, since it needs its own list of options defined ahead of time; that one still goes through Settings.

Filling them in

Once at least one field exists for a content type, a Custom Fields tab appears in the editor sidebar right alongside Content and SEO. Fill in the value for each field the same way you would any other form — it saves along with the rest of the item.

What happens if you remove a field later

Nothing destructive. If you remove a field from the schema, any values already saved for it stay in your content — they just stop showing up in the editor. Add the field back later with the same label, and everything reappears exactly as it was.