CustomFields 1.2
This took a little longer than I expected but CustomFields has had a huge update:
- Complete overhaul of the plugin to lessen the amount of code redundancy. This overhaul also means I can easily add to the plugin, so, if time allows, I'll be releasing more frequent updates
- Category Custom Fields - like entries and authors, categories can now have their own custom fields
- Custom Template Tags - I'd recently used this plugin for a large project and it was painful to type out a long string just to access the value of one field. As a result, with v1.2, the contents of each field can be accessed by its own template tag. These template tags can be defined and changed by the user - ultimate power
- Ordering of fields - One of the biggest requests was to be able to change the order the fields appeared. With v1.2, you can change the order of fields through a drag and drop interface, simply click and drag the field.
- Date fields have become more powerful - you can select dates from an inline calendar and dates can be formatted just the way you want them using the format attribute with the template tag.
- Major bug fix - some fairly major bugs have been fixed including these two
The following is on my todo list:
- The ability to change the default entry fields
- Sorting code blocks e.g. MTEntries, MTCategories by a CustomField value
- XMLRPC implementation such that you can modify CustomFields data from an external client such as Zempt or wbloggar.
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Aziz said:
on Dec 26, 2005 9:28 PM | Reply
Thank you Arvind! it's really wonderful! the best Christmas gift that I could have get. it was more than a month that I was thinking to make a new plugin to add a filed (just one!) to categories in MT in order to enable the users to differentiate the English name of the category (which is used in urls) and it's real name (rather description). so now I'm in heaven! thanks a lot, it really rocks. I'm looking to see the newer versions, specially the export functionality and XML-PRC that I'm really interested.
haospoke said:
on Dec 28, 2005 1:34 AM | Reply
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Nilesh said:
on Jan 3, 2006 12:12 PM | Reply
Hi Arvind,
Thanks for such an awesome plugin. And a very Happy New Year!
Nilesh said:
on Jan 3, 2006 7:05 PM | Reply
Hey Arvind, the SVN folders are there in the 1.2 package. You can extract a clean copy of the plugin using 'svn export' instead of 'svn checkout'.
bill said:
on Feb 5, 2006 11:14 PM | Reply
I would like to install your plugin, but those svn files are too smart for me. Please fix.
John Tomlinson - The Synergos Instutitute said:
on Jul 6, 2006 8:35 PM | Reply
I'm trying to install CustomFields 1.2 for use in a blog for my organization, and though it seems to install correctly (appearing in Plugins under System Overview) when I click on any of the custom fields, I get an error message "Got an error: Missing configuration file. Maybe you forgot to move mt-config.cgi-original to mt-config.cgi?"
But I have moved mt-config.cgi-original to mt-config.cgi, so I can't figure out what the problem is.
Would you be available for hire (hourly or by the job) to look into this and fix it?
Please let me know by and we could discuss via email or phone (jtomlinson[at]synergos.org and +1 646-963-2123).
Brandon Fuller said:
on Aug 2, 2006 7:59 AM | Reply
Found a bug. If you create a custom entry field as a text field...then you put value in there but the value contains a double quote, it will not show back up when you re-edit the post. The problem is that you are not encoding the quote in the output so the form value gets ended prematurely.
Would love to see this addressed ASAP.
mel said:
on Sep 1, 2006 9:46 PM | Reply
Hi,
I was wondering if it was possible to use the custom author fields inside of an individual entry field, to display the custom fields for the author of that entry? I was wrapping my author custom fields in and that then shows all the custom fields for all the authors and it isn't entry specific.
Thank you for any assistance you can provide.
mel said:
on Sep 1, 2006 10:01 PM | Reply
I meant to say:
I was wondering if it was possible to use the custom author fields inside of an individual entry ARCHIVE template.
And I was wrapping the custom author fields in (without spaces)
I'm willing to pay for any help you can give!! thank you!
John Tomlinson said:
on Sep 5, 2006 6:53 PM | Reply
FYI the installation problem I had in July seems to have to do with paths within the server.
Paul Larson said:
on Nov 2, 2006 8:28 PM | Reply
How can I convince you to finish this on your ToDo list? ;)
"Sorting code blocks e.g. MTEntries, MTCategories by a CustomField value"
Veena said:
on Feb 8, 2007 11:47 PM | Reply
I was wondering if there was a way to use a custom field in the same way you use the MT field Category. Essentially I have a set of projects that I want to display, but I want them to have two main categories, not sub-categories. Therefore, if I could get the custom field to act as a duplicate to the existing MT Category field, I could create an archive with this custom field. However, at this moment I am stuck as to how to go about this. Any words of advice are greatly appreciated!!!!