About
Some people have asked us about why we created Magic Fields, and in this section we want to explain our reasons why we have spent our free time on this project.
The main reason to create Magic Fields was that we disagree with of the path of development that has the original project (if you don’t know the original project, take a look here). And one of the best features of the GPL license is that if you do not agree with something you can do a fork and continue your own path of development.
Another great thing of the GPL’s world is that anyone can decide what he want to use, so following this spirit we have the code available. if someone else want to follow and support our road he will be free to do it.
This plugin does not want to compete with any other, we don’t want to be “better” or “faster” or “lighter” just to prove that we are any better than other projects, we just want to do things as we think is the best approach and following this thought we are sure that in a near future Magic Fields will have his own identity, his own community and will be a tool that anyone can use for his own purpose.
And since we believe in the wisdom of the crowd, we welcome your suggestions and feedback for this plugin.
Actually many of the features, fixes and ideas came from users who want to help us improve the plugin. We say thanks of all of you for your help to make this plugin more useful for all.
Kind Regards Magic Field’s crew
Gnuget (David V) is a Web developer since 2002 working under wordpress the last year. 
Tobias
3 Sep, 2009
I’d like to know if it is (somehow) possible to make a custom field whose input is a dropdown list for another custom field group?.
example – i’d like to publish a book review.
for that i’ve got a custom field for the books author,
which i’d like to input on a seperate post/page with the matching curriculum vitae before. as several authors have written more than one book it would be nice to be able to list the authors, have a link to their curriculum vitaes and following the books they wrote.
Gnuget
4 Sep, 2009
in this version not is possible this. but is a good idea. We will see how we can integrate this feature in the nexts releases of custom fields.
Thanks.
Tobias
6 Sep, 2009
This would be a really great feature for an already great plugin! greetings from austria,
Kulpreet Singh
25 Sep, 2009
Yes ^ that would be a great idea. That’s what PodsCMS has, it’s called PICK. It allows you to define a relationship between one field and another, so when you are adding a “Book Review” you have a drop-down of authors, or when you are adding an “Event” you have a drop-down of cities, etc. Unfortunately PodsCMS has other deficiencies so I can’t use it – please develop this plugin to have this feature, it would be great!
Ivo
16 Nov, 2009
Hello people of Magic Fields,
Always good that someone’s improving on a plugin (or functionality), thanks for that!
However, the information I’m missing on the site (And in this post.) is what your development goals are in contrast to Flutter. You say: “…in this section we want to explain our reasons why we have spent our free time on this project”, yet you don’t give any reasons.
So my question is: could you explain what you thought was wrong about the Flutter plugin and what you changed or aim to change (Or functionality you added)? Simply put: What’s the difference between “Flutter” and “Magic Fields”?
Thanks for your reply!
Ivo Vandeberg
Concept, Image & Design
Ivo
16 Nov, 2009
Hey,
I discovered your ‘explication’ about what’s different about the plugin in contrast to Flutter in the publication post for the first version of “Magic Fields”. Perhaps it would be a good idea to post a description (bullet list at least) of that on this page because you refer to it: “…in this section we want to explain…”.
Anyway, that got that cleared up for me. I’ve got another Q though: when switching to “Magic Fields” with the conversion script: are the custom fields also converted and added to the new “MF” panels? (‘Cos I read a post about ‘it not doing that’ in one of the posts. And the info wasn’t in the post about the conversion script either.)
THX!
IVO
hunk
16 Nov, 2009
Hi Ivo.
If, your you will have the same structure (write panels-> customs fields-> it dates). it must not have problem with anything, it uses script for version 1.2, is important that you have backup of your BD in case something does not come out well
Ivo
17 Nov, 2009
Ok, thanks for your reply!
Yes, a DB backup before doing something like that is definately a good idea!
hartbow
11 Jan, 2010
It’s really magic. what an awesome application!
i don’t know if you guys make enough money, but if you are looking for lucrative work; please send me an email
i support GPL too.
Jacob Schulke
1 Feb, 2010
Is there a show case of sites created using Magic Fields?
Gnuget
2 Feb, 2010
Hi.
This is a pretty new project and unfortunately we don’t have a show case of projects created using Magic Fields.