Getting Started

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TinyMCE Advanced is conflicting to cause the first issue.

The HTML tab is still missing its tool bar tho.

My suggestions are:

- Don’t fork Flutter. It’s not as intuitive as Pods. Flutter also tries to piggy back on the Posts system, which makes it confusing, and you could do well to do it the Pods way or create your own kind of system like Pods.

- Drop TinyMCE and go with nicEdit. It’s a similar editor that gets the job done and with far less hassle.

- Always keep in mind the interface intuitiveness for not just the developer who may wish to use your system, but in the client interface. You may encounter a client who just doesn’t understand all the bells and whistles of WP, nor Flutter, but may understand Pods a little.

Ok so i personally think it’s great news that somebody has decide to push this project forward. I have been using flutter for some time now because it’s the only plugin that will add a nice media uploader for my clients to upload a thumbnail for a post.

@Volomike flutter or magic-fields is completely different to pods.
Magic-fields is a good way to handle meta-data attached to a post whilst still remaining in the post page paradigm.

I love pods it’s one of the best plugins ever, that’s why i use them for what they were built for: handling alternative content.
For example say a business directory.

Ok so anyway i tend to have to make this correction every time i set up a new install, i wonder why you guys haven’t applied this fix yet by the way.
http://www.doc4design.com/articles/flutter-condensed-menu/

also in the latest release (1.1) maybe also the previous one, after creating a write panel, i create a group and a field in that group. the new group apears but empty and the field appears above in the default panel (magic fields custom fields)

keep up the good work people.

Hi GUys,

Ok…. new to WP but not CMS. I guess when I jumped in I went deep with Joomla. BUt needing to steet up a much simpler sight only for event dates.. I decided on WP. Now I have tried the Custom Fields, Flutter and have wound up here at Magic Fields.

Now my although I have been unable to recall the fields individually (I am still trying though, I’ll get it.), my question is…

Is there a way to call up a “GROUP or GROUP ARRAY” of fields with one (1) line of code that I can slip in to the content loop on the page? I mean Magic Fields allows you to create a group, in my instance “”Event Detail” with several fields for that group.

Also should I maintain an “all lower case format” when I name a group or field? Obviously I can use caps in the “Label” text. but for background purposes should these names be all lower case?

I hope I made my self clear.

The site is in testing at csup.deliamultimedia.com.

I would like to have the fields displayed under the title.

I am also trying to work on removing the “posted date” in that little colored box in the upper left corner and put the event date there.

Thanks in advance.

JD

@Emma.
Hi Emma check the thread below for duplicated fields and see if any of those methods work for you. http://groups.google.com/group/magic-fields/browse_thread/thread/19c4a5b03662f740

Hi,

Anyone know how can i run a check to see if a group exists (groupGallery) and if it does exist then create an object for each group (groupGallery).

The object (groupGallery) will simply be a series of list elements containing:

get(ImageTite)
get_image(‘ImageThumb’)
get(‘imageDescription’)

hope that makes sense! – i have also posted this on the google groups forum.

Thanks

doh! nevermind, I see where…!

which is better? Magic Fields vs Flutter? Why not just contribute to Flutter, seeing as both plugs are trying to do the same thing?

Hopefully next version of wordpress will incorporate all developments into a first party feature. Worth throwing a party, indeed.

i don’t mean to patronize. The plugin is kick-ass.

Also, check out this plugin for that mediocre CMS expression engine. Some nice features that Wordpress should incorporate:

http://brandon-kelly.com/fieldframe/showcase/bundled

Looking foward to more developments

First, I’d like to thank you for creating this plugin, it’s awesome. Just what i needed for a new website I’m building.

I’ve just suceeded with the whole thing to get duplicate groups to display. I read the maual in spanish (i know a bit of spanish). There is one thing I’d like to know still.. I would really like to wrap each group in a DIV, so i can style the groups separately and so on. How do i do that? I’m pretty new to Wordpress and PHP in perticular, so there is probably an easy way to do that right?

Here is how the code looks in my page.php, inside the loop.

<?php

$albums = get_group('album');

foreach($albums as $album){
echo "”.$album['album_name'][1].”";
echo $album['album_songs'][1];
}

?>

Great Great plugin
Only thing is that the get_field_duplicate doesn’t filter empty fields hence need to do a messy workaround to exclude and not echo it

work like magic.
Thanks hunk – much appreciated.

Noa

First, Thank God someone is forking Flutter and de-bloating it. I believe Flutter development has picked up again, but the de-bloating was necessary.

Second, what if anything are you doing to embrace custom post_types? This would bring some of the PODS capability although still using the post table. It would also allow write panels based on post_type instead of “categories.” This appears the direction of Wordpress. Lastly, do you know what is breaking MagicFields in MU? I have a single blog setup of MU and am wondering if it will still present a problem?

Great work and thanks. If I use MF, I will certainly donate.

Hi there:

First thanks for the fork, I thing it was needed. I think I found a bug so I am reporting.

Specs:
Server: LAMP
WP 2.9.1 (although it also happens in 2.8.4)
Magic Fields 1.3.1 (also happens with last flutter version)

SexyBookmarks 2.6.2
Sociable 3.5.2
YARPP 3.1.3

It happens that when you use a Multiline Textbox type of field the plugins listed above (at least) insert themselves in between the custom fields you created with Magic Fields (one time for each Multiline Textbox field).

It seems that this kind of field inserts something that this plugins are lookin for to identify where to be ineserted, it may be easier to just change something inside MAgic Fields than getting them all to modify theiri code so…

(I have had to change my Multiline Textbox to simple textboxes for the moment as I can’t find out a better solution by myself)

Great plugin guys, thanks in advance.

Hello!
I love this plugin! Thank you so much!
I am having trouble with acess though. I need to grant access to author, but I can’t manage to get that. I am using Role Scoper. I even tried Role Manager. I unchecked and then checked the case Assign to Role case but it does not work. I deactivated Role Scoper and also Adminimizer and still no access to the form for the author.

Any help would be much appreciated because I have spent much time on this now.

Thank you so much!

I am using multiple post types which ideally will be displayed on the same listings page, these will be displayed differently so i need a way to be able to tell what type of post it is in the loop so i can use different markup. How can i see what write panel the post was created with? Cheers in advance.

Great plugin.
Well i need to ask a lame question, please tell me how to delete the custom panel created via Magic Field.
I have looked at all the options but delete action is not available.
Do i have to edit the core files or is there some method call for deleting a custom panel.

Hey, I think I figured it out!

It looks like “Magic Fields” is a replacement for the default “Add New” link. What I did was check the “Condense Menu” option in Settings. Then I used the “Adminimize” plugin to remove the default “Add New” link.

Now when the editor creates a page, they click on my Custom Panel (then proceed like they did with “Add New”).

Does that sound correct?

I’m having trouble with duplicate content. I created a write group with several fields and added those to my page as instructed with the get function. However, what displays is the default wp custom fields (with the key as opposed to the label) and below that is the Magic Fields custom fields (with no label).

Here is a sample post showing the problem:
http://recreationalinvestment.com/motorcycles/test-post/

and here is the code I entered:

Any help would be appreciated as I am pulling my hair out and already late on delivery of this site to the client.