WordPress tip: Create invisible custom fields

WordPress tip: Create invisible custom fields

Existing Custom fields are visible and editables when you edit a post. But when the custom field is created by a piece of code, you may not want to display it publicly. Here is how to do.

This little trick is extremely simple: All you have to do is give a name starting with an underscore to your custom field when you create it, and it will not be displayed on WordPress dashboard when editing a post, as shown in the example below: