Enabling Custom Fields

This section allows you to make custom fields and taxonomies available in the frontend forms.

Note: This feature is marked as experimental and requires technical knowledge to configure. Custom fields must already exist in your WordPress installation.

Important: Custom fields / taxonomies should be added directly to the Documents post type, via a plugin like Barn2 Easy Post Types & Fields, or ACF. Meta fields added to individual documents are not supported as these are on a per document level and are not global.

Once created, custom fields can be:

• Displayed on frontend create/edit forms
• Included in the dlp_frontend_create and dlp_frontend_edit shortcodes
• Controlled with shortcode parameters:
  • custom_fields="field1,field2" – Show only specific fields
  • exclude_custom_fields="field3" – Hide specific fields
  • include_custom_fields="true" – Include all custom fields selected on the Settings screen.