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# Email, phone, URL, and user fields
- URL: https://padlet.blog/email-phone-url-and-user-fields/
- Published: 2025-08-14T15:28:07.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-14T15:28:07.000Z
- Description: Four new custom fields to help you collect and organize data.
- Author: Julia Carnes
- Tags: Boards

Filling out forms on my phone is a dangerous game. If I need to enter my zip code and the regular keyboard shows up instead of the numeric keypad, it makes me incredibly, irrationally angry.

Whether you relate to my rage response or just like things that work properly, you'll appreciate our latest update: four new custom field types that automatically validate and organize data.

## Four field types for perfect data

### Email field

![Post composer showing Email field with validation error 'Invalid email address' for 'leo_da_vinci@aolcom'](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d2/25/d2258912-e0a6-4319-9265-8a9bd210577c/content/images/2025/08/Custom-fields-blog-2-banner-light.png)

Validates email addresses automatically. Perfect for contact forms and directories. No more "john.doe@gmailcom" making it through.

### Phone number field

![Post composer showing Phone number field with '+1 (800) 865-5309' entered](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d2/25/d2258912-e0a6-4319-9265-8a9bd210577c/content/images/2025/08/Custom-fields-blog-3-banner-light.png)

Accepts different formats as long as they’re numbers. You can enter (555) 123-4567 or 555-123-4567, then we’ll format them to look the same.

### URL field

![Post composer showing URL field with 'padlet.com' entered](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d2/25/d2258912-e0a6-4319-9265-8a9bd210577c/content/images/2025/08/Custom-fields-blog-4-banner-light.png)

Include a URL in your post. Useful for collecting digital portfolios, profiles, or personal websites. Only accepts URLs.

### User field

![Post composer showing User field with Leonardo Da Vinci selected from dropdown](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d2/25/d2258912-e0a6-4319-9265-8a9bd210577c/content/images/2025/08/Custom-fields-blog-5-banner-light.png)

Tag Padlet users from your school/team account or board collaborators. Great for assigning tasks or tracking project ownership.

## Getting started

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Here’s how to add these new custom fields.

1. Board settings → Post fields → New custom field
2. Choose email, phone, URL, or user

Custom fields are available now on web and mobile.

## Building on structured data foundations

Since 2023, we've been expanding Padlet's structured data capabilities. We started with [custom text fields](https://padlet.blog/postfieldscustomization/), then added [number, date, single-select, and button fields](https://padlet.blog/four-new-custom-fields/). With these four, we now support nine custom fields covering the most common data collection needs.

![Hogwarts Directory in table format showing student data with custom fields including Email addresses in a dedicated column](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d2/25/d2258912-e0a6-4319-9265-8a9bd210577c/content/images/2025/08/Custom-fields-blog-7-banner-light.png)

Combined with our recent [table format](https://padlet.blog/meet-the-new-table-format/) and [submission links](https://padlet.blog/share-links/), you get a lightweight alternative to Google Forms + Sheets workflows but with multimedia support and real-time collaboration.

## What's next

We plan to add multi-select fields, percentage inputs, and currency formatting. We're also working on the ability to group posts by custom field. So, for example, if you use the user field to assign tasks, you can group posts based on who they are assigned to.

Ready to collect cleaner data? Try the new custom fields on your next project. And if you have a request for a new custom field, [send us a message](https://padlet.com/contact-us?ref=padlet.blog).