Add more fields to a post

If you click the advanced editing button, you’ll get a new field: excerpt. You could use that for your “lead”.

To add more fields, you’d either have to alter the WP database and hack the code (I wouldn’t do it), or use <a href=”https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Custom_Fields
>Custom Fields</s>.

The Custom Fields method will work. The problem, then, is figuring out a good way to change the form used on the post editing screen to make often used custom fields easier to enter.

You might check out the plugins on https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins/Meta to see if any of them can do what you want (or if they could be hacked into doing what you want).

Wow – that’s just about the worst link ever.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Custom_Fields

I wrote a tutorial on adding custom inputs, located at https://www.bluewebpages.com/blog/2005/05/customfields. It is a bit more in-depth than having the existing custom fields remain fixed, but I was unable to accomplish the later task.