Add custom field to Category

Question

I'd like to Add custom field to Category. I mean when I creat a category I only have

Name:

Slug:

Parent:

Description:

Since I have a TV Series Site, I want to add some more fields, I want something like this, when I create a new category (Category=Series)

Name:

Artist:

Year:

Type:

Genre:

Summary:

Slug:

Parent:

Description:

And so on...

Any help please? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I posted an How To about it a week ago http://en.bainternet.info/2011/wordpress-category-extra-fields

hope this helps.

Ohad.

Answer 2

Paul Menard provided an example of how to create and use term meta in his blog...
Custom meta for new taxonomies in WordPress 3.0.

There's no example of creating the DB table or checking $_POST vars are set, so you'll need to do those little things yourself, but it looks like a decent code base to build on top of ... :)

Answer 3

Here is a cheat sheet I use when doing this. It has the relevant action hooks & filters in one short list. http://www.charlestonsw.com/adding-custom-fields-to-the-wordpress-category-interface/