Using post meta

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• Content type (Course, Tutorial, Online Workshop, or Lesson Plan): Lesson
• Content title: Plugin requirements
• Topic description: Learn how to use post meta to add custom fields to custom post types. Introduce the Custom Fields panel to manage custom fields.
• Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): Developer
• Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Beginner

Learning Objectives

• Describe what a custom post type is
• Create a custom post type, using the relevant core function

Related Resources and Other Notes

• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/metadata/

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I haven't spent much time digging into post meta. I should! Good info @jonathanbossenger

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https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson/custom-post-type-data/