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We updated More Fields to 2.0.3 yesterday.

The most wanted fixes seemed like the file list fields and pagination for custom field lists. And we think we got them squashed.

The Changelog is updated accordingly:

• Regained file list functionality with proper admin-ajax
• Bug fix for template functions
• Problem with listings based on Custom Fields fixed
• Fixed More Fields breaking some plugins

Test 2.0.3 out and mark your support threads as resolved if you think they are and give us praise.

Some users have asked for a way to reset the More plugins to its default state to start over. And I thought I’d let you know how it’s done.

In More Fields, More Taxonomies and More Types there is a line in the plugin php file that looks like this:

if (0) update_option('more_nn', array());

where nn is fields, types or taxonomies respectively.

Open the file and change that line to:

if (1) update_option('more_nn', array());

Load the settings page for that plugin (Settings » More nn).

Then change that same line back to

if (0) update_option('more_nn', array());

This should revert all settings of that plugin back to null.

Please note

This is a hard reset of the plugin data. There is no undo. Use with caution. (And do backup before you start playing with it.)

We got the flyswatter out and are smashing a couple of bugs right out of the gates.

More Fields 2.0 issue:

• WYSIWIG and content not showing up (Report 1, Report 2)
• implode error reported by some users (Report 1, Report 2). This was caused by changes between the implementation of json_decode between PHP 5.2.x and 5.3.x. We’re no longer using json (while remaining big fans), as it requires PHP5.
• WYSIWIG overflow when window is small.

More Types 1.0 issue:

• Featured image missing from created types (Report 1)
• Weird UTF8 text was saved as even weirder text (Report 1)
• Text labels other than singular & plural were not saved properly (Report 1)

We will be pushing the point update shortly, until then look for release candidates in Other versions.

(This post will be updated until release.) More Fields 2.0.1 and More Types 1.0.1 were just committed to the repository. Try them out and let us know what you think!

Get your tickets for the Sputnik release of our suite of More plugins all working and tested with WordPress 3.0.1.

More Fields 2.0

More Fields is our most downloaded WordPress plugin with over 50 000 downloads from the WordPress repository.

It adds boxes to the Write/Edit page in the admin for easy management of more types of content. These boxes contains input fields, so that additional (more) fields can be added to a post. For example, if you write about books, you can add a box where you can enter title and author, isbn, etc. The boxes can be placed either to the right or to the left on the Write/Edit page.

This finally makes Custom fields usable.

More Types 1.0

More Types is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add new post types to the WordPress admin, besides Posts and Pages. For instance if you run a music site you could create a review post type (based on post). If you run a food blog you could create a post type for recipes.

This allows for a simpler admin for your users, and better structure for you.

More Types also allows you to override the default post types, set user capabilities for specific post types and more.

More Taxonomies 1.0

More Taxonomies allows you to add new taxonomies to the WordPress admin. For instance if you run a football site you could create a team taxonomy (non-hierarchical, like tags) and set teams on your posts relating to a specific game. If you run a music blog you could create taxonomies for artists, musicians or perhaps producers. This way you could be more specific in your posts and allow for specific pages for items in your created taxonomy.

This way you can structure your posts in new and creative ways. You can use your new taxonomies together with the old tags and categories.

More Taxonomies also allows you to override the default taxonomies, set user capabilities for a specific post type and more.

More Plugins Suite

If you use more than one of the plugins they interact beautifully (we hope you’ll think). You could for instance allow for a specific More Fields box to appear on just a specific Post type created with More Types. You could set a specific taxonomy to be used with just a specific Post type. You could even create new types of More Fields fields that interacts with a Taxonomy created with More Taxonomies.

More or less

Allthough we think all of our plugins are great, you can use any of our plugins stand alone. They work great by themselves (but they feel a bit lonely).

Sputnik what?

Sputnik is the version label for the common php object that handles taskas that are common to the More Plugins. It handles data/editing/deleting and builds the Settings pages for the plugins among other boring stuff. It’s really just a g33k thing that glues things together, that you really wouldn’t notice when using the plugins, unless we told you about it, which we just did. Anyway, we like it.

Support?

Look for support in the forum (we’re not able to track bugs here among the comments). But if you’d like to share some use cases or praise us that’s fine in the comments …

We’re extremely proud to announce that last night More Fields passed the 50 000 downloads mark. Thank you for using our plugin that started with just something we needed ourselves when we converted one of Swedens largest music sites, dagensskiva.com, from a homebrewed ASP CMS to WordPress.

I know we keep teasing, but the launch of Sputnik (More Fields 2.0, More Types 1.0 & More Taxonomies 1.0) is getting real close now.

And we are happy to report that we have received our single biggest donation yet from Jesse Sutherland who has created a custom theme for a new home for our plugin suite. Soon this site will relocate to its new home.

I thought I’d try to clear up a few things about upgrading More Fields from 1.x to 2.x.

What’s happening?

We’ve restructured the data model for More Fields to be compatible with WordPress 3.0. To use Boxes, Fields and Post types created with More Fields 1.x in WordPress 3.0 you need to upgrade them.

Upgrading the easy way

The easiest way to upgrade to the upcoming More Fields 2.0 release is to stay in WordPress 2.x and upgrade to More Fields 1.5.3. That will prepare the Boxes, Fields and Post types for WordPress 3.0. (Please note that More Fields 1.5.3 itself is not entirely compatible with WordPress 3.0.)

1. Upgrade to WordPress 2.9.2
2. Upgrade to More Fields 1.5.3
3. Wait for release of More Fields 2.0
4. Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.x
5. Upgrade to More Fields 2.0
6. Install and activate More Types 1.0

Upgrading the other way

If you’ve been eager for the new features of WordPress 3.0 you probably have already upgraded. If you still use More Fields 1.x, upgrade to More Fields 1.5.3 and then to the latest release candidate of More Fields 2.0.

If you have problems upgrading from WordPress 3.0 and More Fields 1.5.x, or have already started using a beta version of More Fields 2.0, you need to upgrade your settings:

1. Using WordPress 3.0
2. Download More Fields Upgrade
3. Upload /more-fields-upgrade.php to /wp-content/plugins/
4. Activate More Fields Upgrade
5. The upgrade is made automatically
6. Deactivate More Fields Upgrade
7. Upgrade to More Fields 2.0

In the unlikely event of errors

If you feel confident getting into the code and if everything still goes to hell in a handbasket you can manually reset More Fields, in /more-fields/more-fields.php changing 0 to 1 on line 32, load the Settings->More Fields page and change it back again.

Update

Download link fixed. (Sorry.)

Update 2

We released 1.5.3 before 2.0.

Update 3

Get em all at WordPress.org/Extend/Plugins/More Fields/Other versions

So 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is out the door.

(We pushed it to the WordPress repository but didn’t change the stable tag.)

Relevant changelog from the readme.txt:

Changelog

2.0rc1

• Boxes can now be attributed to a specific post type in More Fields fore better interoperability with More Types.
• Separation of different versions of fields (More Fields created with functions.php/other plugins, exported More Fields fields and More Fields created in More Fields.
• HTML5 input types (color, range, time, number, week, month, date)
• Bug fixes

2.0b1

• Compatibility with WordPress 3.0
• Post type functionality moved to the More Types plugin
• New template function, more_fields: more_fields(field,before,after,content filter)
• Box export functionality
• Compatibility with More Taxonomies, More Types, More Roles
• Total code revamp
• Enhanced rights management for boxes

Please try it and report bugs to the forum.

Next in line

Next in line is the RC1 of More Taxonomies. Stay tuned.

So, we’re moving along. Yesterday evening Henrik pushed More Types 1.0 Release Candidate 1 to the WordPress repository.

Henrik has been hard at work restructuring the plugin again to separate the types of post types for WordPress 3.0. With More Types there is four types: Built in Post Types (like Posts and Pages), Post types defined in functions.php or another plugin, Post types exported from More Types, and Post types created within this installation of More Types.

But the best new feature in my mind? readme.txt!

Description

More Types is a WordPress plugin that adds new post types to the WordPress admin. For instance if you run a music site you could create a review post type (based on the post). If you run a food blog you could create a post type for recipes.

If you use More Fields in addition to More Types you could for instance add an input field where you put the ingredients and another where you input cooking time.

With More Types you can:

• Create additional post types
• Set different editing capabilities of post types based on user roles (rights to review, save, and publish), even for built in post types
• Control what input boxes are available for each post type
• List posts in specific menus in the WordPress admin
• Set visibilitiy of a post type based on user level
• Link taxonomies to any post type

More Types is part of a suite of plugins created to enhance the functionality of a vanilla WordPress installation. With More Fields you can create additional input fields for easier management of Custom fields, with More Taxonomies you can create additional taxonomies besides Categories and Tags. More Types works without the other plugins but interacts with them nicely.

This plugins was born out of the development work done for Dagensskiva, Dagensbok and user requests.

Installation

To install More Types:

1. Upload the ‘more-types’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Administer in Settings -> More Types

Upgrading from More Fields 1.x?

If you’re upgrading from More Fields 1.x you need to take a couple of steps to continue working with your already defined Post Types.

1. Upgrade to More Fields 1.5.1 (this prepares the More Fields fields and Post types for WP 3.0)
2. Update to WordPress 3.0 still using More Fields 1.5.1
3. Upgrade to More Fields 2.0
4. Install More Types 1.0

Changelog

1.0rc1

• Separation of different types of post types (default Post types, Post types created with functions.php/other plugins, exported More Types Post types and Post Types created in More Types.

1.0β3

• Bug fixes

1.0β2

• Improved functionality for exporting and importing post types

1.0β1

• Creation and editing of moved from post types to More Types
• Restructuring of data model (for WordPress 3.0)

We haven’t forgotten about the template function and widgets, but decided to leave them out of a 1.0 release not to delay it further.

Next in line: More Fields

The next release is the eagerly anticipated release of More Fields 2.0rc1. Stay tuned.

This weekend we’re having a More Plugins Dev Camp in Örebro, Sweden.

The plan is to release More Types 1.0, More Taxonomies 1.0, and More Fields 2.0 before the weekend is over.

To tease a bit we’re implementing template tags for More Types, More Taxonomies, and More Fields to make it easier to use and work with the plugins in your theme work.

For our flagship plugin, More Fields, we’re also implementing some HTML5 features for input type="nn". We know that most browsers won’t be able to make much of them for now, but in time they will and we will be ready.

With these features you can create fields that only recognises numericals, a range, a colour, a date, a time or datetime.

We’ll see you on the other side.

Update

The weekend is over and still no new releases yet. But I thought I’d give you an update on what we’ve been up to.

We’ve made another rewrite of how More Plugin handle different types of Post types, Taxonomies and Custom fields, which required some significant structural changes within the plugins. Now we’ve separated items within the plugin to make it easier to distinguish between different types.

For More Types the admin page is separated into:

• More Types Post types
  Post types created with More Types or has been imported from other sources.
• Saved More Types Post types
  Post types from files created with More Types.
• Post types defined elsewhere
  Post types created with functions.php or other plugins.
• Default Post types
  Built in post types.

The functionality is inherited bottom up, that is:
If you have the same Post type defined in Saved More Types Post types as in a Post type defined elsewhere the settings from Saved More Types Post types will override the settings from Post type defined elsewhere. Do you guys think that’s the correct order of things?

Expect GM versions posted to the repository soon.

More Fields 2.0

The 21st of April we reached a milestone for More Fields with 40k downloads. We’re really proud of all the fantastic things you’ve created with our creation.

We’re celebrating this with revamping More Fields for WordPress 3.0 in its entirety.

What you’ll notice is that we’ve removed the page type functionality and made it into an entirely new plugin (More Types). But we’ve also integrated that plugin with More Fields in a, if we can say so ourselves, lovely way.

With this change More Fields works better if you only want the box functionality, but you can still do everything you’d like and even more with both of them together.

Remember that this is an early beta and it needs WordPress 3.0. But if you dare to use WordPress 3.0 you probably dare to use More Fields 2.0.

(The 2.0 branch will not be pushed onto the plugins repository until we get closer to the final release of WordPress 3.0.)

Download More Fields 2.0

More Fields 1.5

We’ve also pushed an update for More Fields for the 2.9 branch of WordPress in preparation for WordPress 3.0.

What More Fields 1.5 does is convert the boxes, fields and post types created with More Fields for later use with More Fields 2.0, More Types 1.0, and WordPress 3.0.