[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10511: Enclosure Custom Fields are automatically deleted

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#10511: Enclosure Custom Fields are automatically deleted
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 Reporter:  animepulse    |       Owner:                
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Feeds         |     Version:  2.8           
 Severity:  major         |    Keywords:  needs-patch   
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Comment(by jamiefehr):

 Replying to [comment:8 westi]:

 > If you want to manually add enclosures then you should not be using the
 custom fields that WordPress uses for automatic enclosures.

 I need to use the enclosure tag, because I want the files to show up in a
 podcast, and according to the documentation, wordpress automatically
 podcasts media files in an enclosure custom field. But I didn't want to
 put the links in my blog posts because I wanted to work with them using
 php in the theme.

 Years go by and everything works exactly as I want it to and exactly as I
 understand it should.

 Then all of sudden after an upgrade, when I try and create a new post with
 a custom field, every time I publish it gets automatically deleted. I
 discover that if I publish the post and then later add the custom field
 leaving the page without updating the post things work as I would like.
 Then when trying to schedule some posts and have them all fail on publish
 I get really frustrated. After some extensive searching I finally come
 here and realize that some one else had requested a change to how things
 work that destroys how I want to work with wordpress.

 This is really aggravating. I hacked the specific function of the wp core
 that causes this back to an older version but this is less than ideal. I
 want to see this "feature" changed.

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