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Issues, wish list and more.

This year started with many changes in our personal lives in consecuence of this the development of magic fields has been very slow until now
But we don’t leave the development we are still working in the next version (1.4) and actually with this release all the things to we want to fix from the original [...]

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Magic Fields 1.3 was released

Magic Fields 1.3 is out, and come with a good number of new features and less bugs.
I’m going to speak a little about the new features.
New Features:
New type of Custom field called “Related Type”.
In Magic Fields 1.3 exists a new custom field type called “Related Type” with [...]

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Magic Fields 1.3-beta was released

In the last release we had a very short time for make testing and this was our own fault.
As results of this we had to create a new quickly release (the version 1.2.1) with a critical fix and after of this we found another serious bug. For that now [...]

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Tutorials!

One of the most bigger issues in Magic Fields was the lack of documentation, learn how use Magic Fields was a hard task but this going to change soon.
Hunk the last week  spent his time writing a good  number of tutorials you can found them here:  http://wiki.magicfields.org/doku.php?id=es:tutorials
If you are user of Magic Fields [...]

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Magic Fields 1.2 was released

Magic fields 1.2 is out and this is our first release with new features.
In this entry we will speak a little about to what is new in this version, we  hope to you enjoy  this new release
New Features.
Condense Menu mode.
In our first release a lot of people ask us for [...]

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Script for migrating from Flutter V 1.1 and 1.0,1.2 and 1.3

Hi Folks.
Edgar wrote a script for  migrating from the last version of flutter (v1.0 or v 1.1)  to magic fields (v 1.1).
You can download the script from here:
http://gist.github.com/198537
or from here:
http://magicfields.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/migra.txt
How use it.
Just follow the next steps:
Download the script here you have a raw version.
Make a backup of your database (for any unexpected bug).
Unactive flutter
Put the script [...]

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Magic Fields 1.1 was released

In these release we continue focus in make Magic Fields more stable and lightweight.
Files like prototype,jquery and jquery.ui.core.js already exists in wordpress and was removed of the magic fields.
We started to take in account the performance in the frontend and was reduced the queries in a 30% when is called any custom field value. this [...]

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Types of Custom Fields.

In Magic Fields, there are 12 types of “fields”. Below is a detailed explanation of each “field” and how to use them in Wordpress.
Please note that the code used to display each “MagicField” must be inside one of the Wordpress loops. E.g. In the default theme, “the_content();” is displayed within the “single.php” file – please [...]

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Support Group For magic fields.

Edgar the last night create a google group for give support of magic fields. Please if you have some doubt,suggestion or your need support don’t hesitate to publish a message.
The  google group is:
http://groups.google.com/group/magic-fields

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Getting Started

This tutorial will be explain the basic use of Magic Fields, how create write panels, how create custom fields and how print in the template.
Installing Magic Fields.
Magic Fields is installed as any wordpress plugin, you just need download from his download page, put the folder in:
wp-content/plugins
And [...]

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