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New WordPress Plugin: Default Post Content

April 13, 2009   ·   By   ·   11 Comments   ·   Posted in Admin, Plugin Releases

Justin over at justintadlock.com made a post a few days ago about how to preset text in the WordPress post editor.  It’s a great post, with an interesting filter detailed.  In the comments, somebody mentioned that they’d like to be able to preset custom fields as well – something that seems like it shouldn’t work (Custom fields need a post id to work on, and new posts dont have a post id).  Yesterday, the workaround hit me like a slap in the face while I was in the shower – so I decided to package up this, along with the original code that Justin published in a plugin.

It’s not the most elegant piece of code in the world, but it works on all the installs I’ve tried it on.  I’ll try to put up a post detailing how it works soon, but in the meantime, feel free to download the plugin and give it a try.

Default Post Content Plugin