How to add custom fields to WordPress Posts and Pages

Custom fields or Post Meta can be added to WordPress Post and Pages. Many themes and plugins ask you to add custom fields to Posts if you want to show some extra information about that post. This is a short video explaining how to add such custom fields to WordPress Posts and Pages.

[christiemills]

Perfect! Thank you so much! My Custom Field box was unchecked. This was a great help!

[thomaspastinsky]

Very informative and straight to the point for what I was looking for. Thanks!

[lsethhill]

THANK YOU! I wasted way too much time searching for how to do this before I found your tutorial. 1 minute and solved as opposed to 21 minutes on some terrible, "Advanced Custom Fields, " garbage. 

[Jagger]

Thanks, thanks, This was exactly the information I´ve been looking for, Thank you so much for the good article explaining about the screen options =)

[webtrickshome]

I liked your voice. Sounds like Deepika Padukone :-)

[tanishalynne]

That was a waste, should of showed how it looked on the site itself so we can see if that is exactly what we were looking for.

[digitalsketchguy]

I have videos that end abruptly and point to a URL.
Sorry i won't be clicking on it today!