How to Use This Plugin
Custom Fields Plugin for Wordpress
I wanted to show you how to set up your conf.ini file so that you can have the fields you need for your wordpress blog’s write page.
Note: Titles should not have spaces in them.
Radio/Checkbox/Select:
[ItemTitle]
type: {either use “radio”, “select”, or “checkbox”}
value: Yes#No#Maybe#Sometimes#Jumping Dolphins <–separate multiple items with the # sign
default: Jumping Dolphins <–This must be spelled the same as the one above that you want defaulted
description: Type the description of the custom field here.
Textfield:
[ItemTitle]
type: textfield
value: Thanks for all the fish
description: Type the description of the custom field here.
TextArea:
[ItemTitle]
type: textarea
value: text text text, more text
description: Type the description of the custom field here.
Custom Fields Plugin for Wordpress
Updates
I have talked previously about the rc_custom_field_gui plugin and how I modified it to fit the WordPress write page styles, and I added a few other features to it. I posted on the original author’s plugin page about the changes that I made to his plugin, and at last check he had not responded.
I have now updated it again.
Previously, if you made an element that had a value or default of “Yes” or “No” it would not work, because PHP’s parse_ini_file function will parse those as 1&0, respectively. This is good when you are using this as an actual ini file, but this is a sort of hack, so we need to figure something out.
Now, just enter your yes/no values as ‘yes’ or ‘no’ with the quotes. The parse_ini_file function will ignore them as yes/no and the plugin will strip the quotes out, and use the text.
Note: You can use any capitalization of the letters in the words ‘yes’ or ‘no’, it will take care of any of them.
Other updates:
I standardized where the descriptions show, which is under the field element for which they are defined.
I made the checkbox a loop like the radio elements, so now you enter them exactly the same as radio and select elements.
Compatible with WordPress 2.2.3!!
Custom Fields Plugin for Wordpress
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hey this is great. I too was moding the plugin to show field descriptions. You saved me some time… thanks!
thanks for adding the multi-checkbox feature. however, it’s not storing the data when I save the post. any ideas?
I would say, that you might want to look into loop that handles the checkbox data insertion into the database.
The only other thing I can think is that the config file is not set up correctly.
Nice write up…usually I never reply to these thing but this time I will,Thanks for the great info.