Increase Custom Fields Dropdown Limit

For your functions.php file or custom plugin:

// Increase number of meta fields shown in dropdown
add_filter('postmeta_form_limit', 'customfield_limit_increase');
function customfield_limit_increase($limit) {
  $limit = 100;
  return $limit;
}

Otherwise, the dropdown for Custom Fields is capped at 30 (alphabetically).

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After:

Comments

Butch

# April 17, 2017

Thanks for your post..
I needed this.. but I also need an addition to it.
Do you know if there is a way to filter out certain meta values from displaying in the drop down?
I have about 50 in my drop down but only 15 of them are actually viable for use in a “new order” admin
I would like to display only the valid order based fields.

Thanks for any assistance you can offer.

Haneeth

# September 17, 2018

Thank you for this! I have bookmarked your website. I had to use another plugin called ACF. Now, with this that is not required also it was simple to add the code and get it right as I wanted. Also, if you can help me with Butch’s concern that would be great

Cedric

# July 25, 2019

This is not working for me. Has anything changed?

# July 11, 2020

add_filter('postmeta_form_limit', function() {
    return 100;
});

Elodie

# September 15, 2021

Hi there! And thank you so much for this, it has been so helpful. However, I now use a child theme and this function doesn’t seem to be working in it. Any suggestion?

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