EP6 – “Advanced Custom Fields” – WPwatercooler – October 29 2012
Oct. 29, 2012, 5:29 p.m. (12 years ago)
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Advanced Custom Fields is the topic for todays 30 minute roundtable at the WPwatercooler.
Suzette Franck has used this on an art gallery website that had 7 years of data, she made a custom form on the back end to be put into an custom post type.
Se Reed asks what is the difference between using custom fields and Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Steve Zenhgut talks about how quicker and easier it is to use Advanced Custom Fields and be able to export the resulting code to be used elsewhere.
Chris Lema talks about a project he used this on where he used both the import and the export feature. The CMS he was using had 18 CPT and each had 5 to 10 different fields. He states that you can assign with mapping the various meta boxes and where they will be used.
Steve talks about the various addons, they recently purchased the “Repeater” addon and it works well.
Chris talks about how he has used this Repeater addon and how it is all stored in Post Meta.
Jason Tucker asks how portable the resulting code is and if the plugin is required.
Steve says that it can and will export all of the code for you when you are done.
Se asks if this can be used for importing other DB data into this plugin
Chris has used this by writing a script to create json data to parse and pull the data.
Se talks about the challenges of working with Post Meta directly in the mysql DB.
Jason talks about importing the data and mapping it.
Chris says that he has only imported the metadata of the post.
Se explains so issues shes dealt with and the challenges shes had doing it the hard way.
Chris mentions how we're all trying to suck all the knowledge from him and just using him for his smarts.
Conspiracies Conspiracies
Dave Jesch asks Suzette about data validation, she says that it does in fact do field type validation.
Apparently a war began in Se's city.
Se talks about Post2Post and it's awesomeness.
Jason talks about how there is a Gravity Forms addon that looks very tasty
Chris talks about an addon his team wrote about using multisite with Advanced Custom Post Types.
Kat asks if beginner users can use this or is it only for advanced. It's so simple anyone can use it.
Suzette talks about how this can be used on CPT and all of the control that comes with it.
Jeff Hester asks about if it can be used on posts and not custom post types he has a metabox for trails that he has on his hiking website.
Steve says that almost every customer has a need for some custom fields in their posts and this is perfect for his clients. This and Gravity Forms are used quite a bit in at his company.
Se asks about if this also generates pages to display everything or is it just adding new fields to work with on your own.
Chris brings up Types and Views and the whole discussion goes into a frenzy.
Se wishes things were harder for a developer the rest of us disagree.
Steve wants better video documentation on how to use Types and Views
Jason comments that 16 year olds made the videos he watched
Chris talks about CPT and Types and Views
Se… again… let the dogs out.
Chris gets back into CPT with Types and Views and how he has used it in the past. Chris mentions that the amount of custom coding he has done has declined just by using these awesome tools
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Suzette Franck has used this on an art gallery website that had 7 years of data, she made a custom form on the back end to be put into an custom post type.
Se Reed asks what is the difference between using custom fields and Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Steve Zenhgut talks about how quicker and easier it is to use Advanced Custom Fields and be able to export the resulting code to be used elsewhere.
Chris Lema talks about a project he used this on where he used both the import and the export feature. The CMS he was using had 18 CPT and each had 5 to 10 different fields. He states that you can assign with mapping the various meta boxes and where they will be used.
Steve talks about the various addons, they recently purchased the “Repeater” addon and it works well.
Chris talks about how he has used this Repeater addon and how it is all stored in Post Meta.
Jason Tucker asks how portable the resulting code is and if the plugin is required.
Steve says that it can and will export all of the code for you when you are done.
Se asks if this can be used for importing other DB data into this plugin
Chris has used this by writing a script to create json data to parse and pull the data.
Se talks about the challenges of working with Post Meta directly in the mysql DB.
Jason talks about importing the data and mapping it.
Chris says that he has only imported the metadata of the post.
Se explains so issues shes dealt with and the challenges shes had doing it the hard way.
Chris mentions how we're all trying to suck all the knowledge from him and just using him for his smarts.
Conspiracies Conspiracies
Dave Jesch asks Suzette about data validation, she says that it does in fact do field type validation.
Apparently a war began in Se's city.
Se talks about Post2Post and it's awesomeness.
Jason talks about how there is a Gravity Forms addon that looks very tasty
Chris talks about an addon his team wrote about using multisite with Advanced Custom Post Types.
Kat asks if beginner users can use this or is it only for advanced. It's so simple anyone can use it.
Suzette talks about how this can be used on CPT and all of the control that comes with it.
Jeff Hester asks about if it can be used on posts and not custom post types he has a metabox for trails that he has on his hiking website.
Steve says that almost every customer has a need for some custom fields in their posts and this is perfect for his clients. This and Gravity Forms are used quite a bit in at his company.
Se asks about if this also generates pages to display everything or is it just adding new fields to work with on your own.
Chris brings up Types and Views and the whole discussion goes into a frenzy.
Se wishes things were harder for a developer the rest of us disagree.
Steve wants better video documentation on how to use Types and Views
Jason comments that 16 year olds made the videos he watched
Chris talks about CPT and Types and Views
Se… again… let the dogs out.
Chris gets back into CPT with Types and Views and how he has used it in the past. Chris mentions that the amount of custom coding he has done has declined just by using these awesome tools
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