[wp-hackers] Adding field(s) before Title and post content on custom post type

[Mike Schinkel]

On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:20 PM, John Blackbourn <johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Idea off the top of my head: If you're only concerned with custom post
> types and want to avoid the jQuery approach, you could achieve it by
> not giving your custom post type the 'editor' or 'title' functionality
> and then defining your own meta boxes which contain these fields and
> which are then positionable. An inelegant solution I know, but it

> would work for now.

Thanks for the though. That's exactly what I've had to do. Yes it works but it's inelegant as heck and more obscure code to maintain than I would like.

-Mike