Philip Newcomer

This plugin makes all custom fields (post meta) visible in the “Custom Fields” meta box on post edit screens.

Show Hidden Post Meta

As a plugin developer, I create hidden post meta all the time and sometimes I need to see it to debug it. This does what it says it does, and well. Its simple and hasn't been updated for a while, but I'm glad it exists!

PS: If you need someone to take this one over, let me know. I'll keep it tested and updated if you're unable to.

Still works on 5.5

Makes hidden post meta visible on post edit screens

Ben Balter

This plugin will work, “as is”, out of the box, but assumes some level of CSS and developer customization to adapt to your site’s specific needs.
Styles can be overridden via your theme’s style.css
Functionality can be overridden via your theme’s functions.php
”Examples”
Don’t display metabox on “product” post type:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'display_custom_fields', 'bb_no_product_metabox' ); function bb_no_product_metabox( $true, $post ) { if ( $post->post_type == 'product' ) return false; return true; } </code></pre>
Don’t display the product_id metakey
<pre><code>add_filter( 'dcf_postmeta', 'bb_no_product_id' ); function bb_no_product_id( $postmeta ) { unset( $postmeta['product_id'] ); return $postmeta; } </code></pre>
Don’t display metabox title
<pre><code>add_filter( 'dcf_heading', '__return_false' ); </code></pre>
Display metabox below content (rather than floated to the right)
<pre><code>add_filter( 'dcf_before_content', '__return_false' ); </code></pre>

Display Custom Fields

Inserts a Wikipedia-like metabox into posts with all the post's associated custom fields and taxonomy terms.

Show Hidden Post Meta vs Display Custom Fields