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 this type of field we can make relation between write panels. For example if we are working in our portfolio and we has a write panel called “clients” and a write panel called “services” we can now related some client with many posts “services”, this new field open a new field of ideas and possibilities.
Adding multimedia buttons to the multiline custom field.
Now is more easy add images and files in the multiline custom field, was added more buttons for doing this more easily.
Adding a new engine for make the validations.
this is the most exciting new feature of this release, was rewrote the “engine” for make validations in the custom fields, now Magic Fields use this jquery library for make the validations, with this in the next version will be add a new rules of validations for the custom fields!
Finish the support for the i18n.
Soon we will explain how translate Magic Fields to your language.
Removing obsolete Code.
One of the things to we personally enjoy is make Magic Fields more lighter, We continue removing and refactoring the code for make the footprint of Magic Fields more smaller. In this release was removed a repeated libraries of jquery.js and ui.jquery.js.
This project is made it in our free time and not has any company behind his development for that we are very grateful with the people to encourage us making donations for continue the development.
Thanks to:
- Jens Wedin
- Jan Ramroth
- Eivind Skjellum
- Albert Ariza
And also we want say thanks to all the people to are helping us doing another kind of donations, like making patches for Magic Fields, reporting bugs and helping us giving support for others users and in general all who gave us any kind of feed back for this plugin.
Gnuget (David V) is a Web developer since 2002 and nowadays working at 
Camilo
8 Dec, 2009
Well, first I want to thank you guys for continually improving this great plugin. This is a great release. Many many thanks for making this available
Rob
8 Dec, 2009
Hi, I gave tried magic fields for the first time yesterday on 1.2 and it’s very impressive, however today I tried 1.3 and there appears to be a bug with wordpress 2.8.6.
Upon creating a write panel for a page either single or multiple any data entered into that panel is not saved, this is only with the pages though as the post section works fine.
All the best
Rob
Gnuget
8 Dec, 2009
Hi Rob.
Yes you are right in the 1.3 version exists a little bug related with the write panels for pages.
We are going to fix this asap and create a new tag soon.
Thanks for your report.
Gnuget
8 Dec, 2009
Hi Rob.
this bug was fixed, in a few moments we are going to publish a new tag.
David.
Rob
8 Dec, 2009
wooo! cheers gnuget!
terryteo
8 Dec, 2009
guys, i am so excited about this project. you really have breathed new life into the best wordpress plugin ever. thanks so much for the hard work!
Milemann
9 Dec, 2009
hi guys!
thanks for excelent plugin.
unfortunately it doesn’t work properly with plugins for multilingual content like QTRANSLATE (http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/) or WPML (http://wpml.org/) to mention two in my opinion best multilingual plugins.
janr
10 Dec, 2009
hey guys, great news, espacially the related fields.
one question, when i hide the standard post panel, i can no longer reach the “categories” section because it’s part of the post box in the navigation. any idea how to solve this? cheers and thanx!
Caroline
10 Dec, 2009
It would be great of the Related field worked with Next Gen Galleries – I’ve always wanted that feature!
janr
10 Dec, 2009
have some problems with the date field. after selecting a date once, i don’t know how to delete it again. any idea?
and i miss german date format which is like 24.12.2010 (day.month.year) i can do it by myself with php but it would be nice to just select it in the future.
Al
10 Dec, 2009
Guys, first of all, Congrats on this great project!
I would like to suggest two simple additions:
1) When managing fields in the Group View, it would be nice to have a column showing the Order number and a couple arrows to raise or lower the fields order at ease;
2) Still related to the item above, it would be great to be able to drag and drop fields to order them, or simply to move them to another group.
Take care and keep up the fantastic job!
openiq
22 Dec, 2009
I noticed that when I upload images they go to the media library (item count changes) but I can’t browse the media by using post/page insert media button.
Is there a solution?
miek
22 Dec, 2009
Man, this is the best plugin evar. It’s exactly what I’ve been hunting for for a long time! Well done and thanks!
janr
28 Dec, 2009
i wanted to add magicfields to several blogs, also using the event calendar plugin. unfortunetely it seems to be not working together. on the manage article page it says: “Parameter 1 to ec3_filter_posts_where() expected to be a reference …”
Gnuget
28 Dec, 2009
Hi MIlemann, Caroline and janr
before of all, sorry for this delay in the reply of this thread, this month has a bunch of days to we spent with our families
so in particular december is not a very productive month for magic fields.
when we are working with Magic fields we are try to use the best practices in the development, trying to avoid any conflict with any other plugin.
unfortunately we can’t anticipate any possible conflict between plugins and in another hand if the issue is from magic fields we can fix it but sometimes the problem come from another plugin and is a very hard task work on Magic fields and in the same time make patches for another plugins for work properly with Magic Fields.
We will do the possible for provide some tips for fix any problem related with magic fields and any other plugin but we need to you isolate the most possible the bug and provide any error to you see.
I hope to you be able to provide us more info about what things doesn’t work with magic fields.
Al.
Thanks for your feedback we will take in account your suggestions
Miek,
Thanks
janr
Can you open a thread in the magic fields group support? i think there you will find a better help.
http://groups.google.com/group/magic-fields
Brandon Dove
31 Dec, 2009
I can’t seem to get this plugin to work with WordPress MU 2.8.6. I try to create a write panel, but when it forwards me to the next page, the write panel is empty. If I go back to the main plugin page, there are no custom write panels. Here’s a video showing the bug. I know it’s New Years Eve, but is there anyone who has seen this bug and fixed it?
http://screenr.com/xFS
duff
3 Jan, 2010
hey!
nice plugin… but is it possible to create links with your magicfield plugin?
i’ve always got this errormessage, when i try to create a weblink and click on it (type: textbox) :
http://www.google.de
hers’s my code:
<a href="http://”>Webseite
what’s wrong?
happy new year,
duff
rob
4 Jan, 2010
Hi guys, just curious whats the situation with Magic Fields and the current wordpress MU?
Happy New Year!
Gnuget
4 Jan, 2010
hi rob
I did tests in WPMU with Magic Fields installed as a wordpress mu plugin and all seems to work fine.
Well tried to test magic fields with wordpress mu as much as i can, i’m not be a wordpress mu power user but i fix some issues.
if someone found a specific bug and is able to replicate it, feel free to open a thread in the support group and i will work in fix it.
terryteo
8 Jan, 2010
heya
i have a feature request:
if possible, could you create an option to have a layer of security for files uploaded through magic fields.
this could probably be as easy as having a checkbox next to the upload button, which if ticked sends the file to a separate folder. then users could add a level of security to that folder.
what do you think?
thanks!