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.
here is the code again:
sorry, but the code isn’t visible… why?
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I have a funny thing here, everytime I make a page to publish with Magic Fields, it defaults it to “scheduled” rather than just publishing it. Any ideas why?
thanks.
Hi Nadine wich fields use for this write panels? this happen only in page or also in post?, you use another plugin ?
Hi Hunk It happened only in posts, but I think it was a conflict / write issue to my database. So I did a second clean instal and it worked out. Great plugin so far btw, very stable, and good solid menu displays when making posts and pages.
Hey great plugin,
It was really useful so far, but there’s this problem I’ve been trying to find a workaround. Is there a way to use get_field_duplicate function with “Related Type” dropdown fields?
I am using some “related type” fields which can be duplicated, and they are duplicated in editor, and I want to use them in an Array but it doesn’t seem to return an array. I’m using code below to test it:
$related_entry = get_field_duplicate(‘related_fields’);
if (is_array($related_entry)){
echo ‘it is array’;
} else {
echo ‘it is not array’;
}
Any ideas?
Hi Offminded, update this file (get_custom.php) add this
case $FIELD_TYPES["related_type"]:
in line 400 and 499.
with this should work well
Hi,
I’m having problems at CHMODing files_mf/ and files_mf/phpthumbcache/
The admin panel keeps telling me I need to change the permissions to 0777 but the folders are already 0777. I’ve tried via FTP, shell… removing them and creating them again… is there anything else I can try?
Thanks
Solved. I had to change the owner of the directory to someone else with more rights.
Thanks.
Thumbs up on your work!
Did anyone get Magic Fields to work with WordPress MU 2.9.2? When I create a write panel with MU nothing happens. I do see the wp_1_mf tables in the database but no records in it.
I did some debugging and found out RCCWP_CustomWritePanel::Create does executes the create queries but into non existing tables. Example: wp_mf_write_panels instead of wp_1_mf_write_panels.
Will there be a MU compatible version in future?
I did some more debugging, editing RCCWP_Constant.php at line 29 seems to do the trick. Use $mf_prefix=$wpdb->prefix; for both WP and WPMU. Creating write panels now works, creating fields didn’t. They don’t get attached to the default group.
For use magicfields in wordpress mu you must install MF as a wpmu plugin. more info here
http://groups.google.com/group/magic-fields/browse_thread/thread/3c4371a78d661e05/e68e6a578bb75d7d?lnk=gst&q=wpmu#e68e6a578bb75d7d
Great work guys! Found about you by occasion.
Tried and so far I only had to change >> $customFieldHelp = htmlentities2($customField->help_text); <> $customFieldHelp = $customField->help_text;<< to display Field Help text correctly with accents for Central European Encoding.
Still, thanks, diggin' into it!
Hi Martin.
Yes that is actually a bug, in the next release will be fixed, you can look the fix here:
http://groups.google.com/group/magic-fields/browse_thread/thread/286e2c2e41ffff52/9934045e01c2ba2f?lnk=gst&q=help_text#9934045e01c2ba2f
Hi guy! Nice plugin… but did you ever think to add a field type for gmaps???
Thanks
Thumbs up on your work!
Did anyone get Magic Fields to work with WordPress MU 2.9.2? When I create a write panel with MU nothing happens. I do see the wp_1_mf tables in the database but no records in it.
I did some debugging and found out RCCWP_CustomWritePanel::Create does executes the create queries but into non existing tables. Example: wp_mf_write_panels instead of wp_1_mf_write_panels.
Will there be a MU compatible version in future?
Hi michelle.
In fact Magic Fields works in wordpress mu, but you need install the plugin as a WordPress MU plugin. more info Here
‘Related Type’ seems to have disappeared on upgrade to 1.3.2. Anyone else having that problem?
‘Related Type’ seems to have disappeared on upgrade to 1.3.2. Anyone else having that problem?
Update: I’m using WordPress MU 2.9.2.
I getting this error when I upgraded to 1.3.2, can some one help, Its on a clients site and im sure there going to wonder whats up soon
Thanks, love the plugin btw
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /data/1/0/1/15/1667/user/35788/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/magic-fields/RCCWP_CustomWritePanel.php on line 643