Custom Fields problem with 2.5rc2

On a hunch, I went back and created another new post but this time I attempted to add 3 custom fields instead of 2.

Doing this resulted in two “Draft Created on DATE at TIME” (same date and time) unpublished posts.

The NAME OF POST (published) and NAME OF POST (unpublished) posts remained the same as I described above.

One of the two “Draft Created on DATE at TIME” (unpublished) posts contained only the first custom field information.

The other “Draft created on DATE at TIME” (unpublished) post contained only the second custom field information.

:S

I experienced something very similar to this earlier today. I couldn’t reproduce it, though. (I forgot what I had done.)

So I can verify the behavior.

I am also experiencing this exact problem. it adds a draft for every custom field entry.

So when i make a post and use 3 custom fields I get the original post plus 3 drafts.
Img of drafts page

Just FYI this is reported for 2.5 via Trac Ticket 6457

hi this ist the video off that bug
https://www.vimeo.com/842369
https://www.vimeo.com/842723

any idea how to solved ?

This is not a fix but a workaround for the moment:

Before creating your custom fields SAVE your post.

After that everything should be Ok.

you`re right, thank you very much, the workaround works. ??

yeah im facing the same problem with the 2.5 edition….its quite irritating

my theme requires me to use 2 custom fields
if i add both together while publishing the post, the CF that is added last gets saved and the other one is discarded.

I have to edit the post again to add the second CF ….

i havent really seen what happens to the drafts, ….though there r many such extra drafts created, as @nebuloso said, i do agree with him, maybe they r becuz of the CF problem..

Thanks for the Turn around @moikirsch

will use it

hope a patch comes up soon

still no revert on the problem
it sure gets irritating

n time consuming
especially if u have a blog where u have to update 10-20 stories a day at one time…..

wp gods save up

i am getting the same problem (clean install of wp 2.5.1). i tried guillep2k’s patch but it does not appear to solve it.

in addition, if i delete the draft posts, the custom fields then disappear from the published posts, and those keys are no longer available in the drop-down on the ‘write post’ screen.

it’s very frustrating as i am using wordpress as a directory, where each post has 8 custom fields, so i now have a lot of drafts!

still no proper reply
isnt this bug bugging others?

is it only with us?

I’m also getting a bunch of drafts, sometimes two or three for each post. I’m getting drafts that consist of only a title since the autosave kicks in and saves it halfway through. I’m also getting drafts with headings like: “Draft created on May 31, 2008 at 5:30 am”

On top of that, my drafts section is now full of 61 useless drafts and I have to delete them one at a time. If I check more than one box I get an “Error in Deleting” message.

So it may be that my problem isn’t related to the custom fields since the drafts get made well before I get a chance to use them.

I’m really hoping someone fixes this soon, it’s very annoying.

I would be nice if deactivating the annoying autosave function would be possible. Manually deleting all those drafts is quite a tedious task.

Unfortunately deleting wp_enqueue_script(‘autosave’) in post-new.php isn’t a solution regarding the custom field issues.

At least ticket 6457 is set to priority “highest omg bbq”..

I would be nice if deactivating the annoying autosave function would be possible. Manually deleting all those drafts is quite a tedious task.

Unfortunately deleting wp_enqueue_script(‘autosave’) in post-new.php isn’t a solution regarding the custom field issues.

At least ticket 6457 is set to priority “highest omg bbq”..

milestone changed from 2.5.2 to 2.9.

Ouch.