More Fields

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More Fields is a WordPress plugin that adds boxes to the Write/Edit page. 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, etc. The boxes can be placed either to the right or to the left on the Write/Edit page.

In addition, the new version of More Fields enables you to define post types, which are custom Write/Edit pages that contains a pre-defined set of boxes. For example, you write about books and you write about your holidays, then you can define a post type ‘Book’ and a post type ‘Holiday’ each containing the input boxes relevant to each type of text. You can also set pre-defined categories, tags and templates for each post type.

The new 1.0 version of More Fields will only support WordPress versions 2.7 and higher.

This plugin can be downloaded from here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/

Table of contents

1. Creating a field

A field in a box is defined by these inputs:

  • Key – This field is required. It is the name of the Custom Field that is created for this field. Using this key, a field can be echoed in a template using e.g. meta(key);.
  • Title – Sets the title for the field. This value is optional, which might be handy when creating a box with only one field, such that the title of the field really is the title of the box.
  • Slug – More Fields enables you to have archive pages based on values stored in Custom Fields. To enable that for a particular field enter the slug you want before the value, e.g. ‘/info/artist’. In this example a listing of Iron Maiden would be created at

    /info/artist/Iron%20Maiden

    Note that you have to use urlencoded characters for this to work properly – e.g. Iron Maiden becomes Iron%20Maiden. Use the php function urlencode.

  • Type – This sets the input type of the field. The following types of options are available:
    • Text – the default type of a one line textfield is created by leaving the Options field empty.
    • Textarea – This creates a multi-line textarea.
    • WYSIWYG – Creates a visual What You See Is What You Get editor.
    • Checkbox – This create a checkbox which has the value of ‘on’ when it’s ticked, and does not have any value when it’s not ticked.
    • Radio – Creates a radio button selector based on the values provided.
    • Select list – Creates a select list from the comma separated values entered in the box that appears on the second line.

1.1 Creating fields with predefined values

Some input types can have predefined values, such as drop-down lists and radio buttons. Pre-defined values can be created in the following ways:

  1. ‘one, two, three’ creates a select list with the options of ‘one’, ‘two’ and ‘three’.
  2. ‘one, *two, three’ creates a select list with the options of ‘one’, ‘two’ and ‘three’, where ‘two’ is selected by default.
  3. ‘0:5′ can be used as shorthand for ‘0,1,2,3,4,5′
  4. ‘2008:1978′ creates an descending select list with 30 options, starting at 2008 down to 1978.

2. Template functions

There are currently two template functions supplied in this plugin.

  1. meta($key) – echoes the Custom Field with key $key.
  2. $var = get_meta($key) – returns the Custom Field with key $key.
  3. The more_fields action, prints out the entire content of a box.

3. Examples

4. Advanced use

4.1 Adding field types

You can add field types to the ones already exists. I’ve made an example plugin that adds a date-picker field, using the jquery-ui.

You can download the example here. Upload to the wp-content/plugins/ directory and activate as a plugin.

This uses the ‘more_fields_field_types’ action, which allows you to modify the existing field types or add new ones.

5. License

The More Fields Wordpress plugin is relased under GPL, and the following license can be found in the header of more-fields.php.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see

The comments for the older version of More Fields have been found on this page.

105 Comments to “More Fields”

  1. Paul Says:
    December 13th, 2008 at 9:31 am

    Fantastic… I was going to comment on the old plugin page to ask if you were working on a 2.7 release… but I didn’t want to be pushy… thanks again… great work..

  2. Brady Says:
    December 13th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Hey I am getting an error message in the new WP with More Fields. It say error in line 401. Any idea on how to resolve?

  3. Jeff Says:
    December 15th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    Awesome plugin — we’re using it all over the place! In the new version though, I can’t find a place to actually turn on/off boxes when I make a new post type. Am I missing something?

  4. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 15th, 2008 at 1:30 am

    Jeff: WP 2.7 now has the capability of hiding showing boxes — which with More Fields works with new page types. On the write/edit screen, click ‘Screen Options’ in the upper right corner.

  5. Tel Says:
    December 15th, 2008 at 8:56 am

    I cannot seem to save data to either pages or posts when using the using added field types (section 4). I can add the required fields but updating the page simply wipes the content…

    am I missing something?

  6. Jeff Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 3:46 am

    Henrik: That makes sense; works great!

  7. Jeff Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 4:22 am

    Henrik: Sorry, I think I spoke too soon. Here’s what’s happening for me:

    (1) In More Fields > Manage Post Types, I make a type: ‘Movie Review’ (Based on ‘post’; Default Template; Default Category: Movie Reviews)

    (2) New ‘Movie Reviews’ tab appears in the menu bar, with Add New and Edit submenus.

    (3) Click Movie Reviews > Edit; click Screen Options at top

    (4) All my More Fields box names appear. Uncheck all except the Movie Review Data box I’ve made.

    (5) There’s no save option or anything, so I click Movie Reviews > Add New

    (6) The Posts tab in the menu bar lights up, with Add New selected under it. I’m at the normal ‘Add new post’ screen, with all my More Fields boxes visible, and no default category selected.

    This doesn’t seem right. I’m assuming that I shouldn’t be kicked back to the normal Posts tab when I click Movie Reviews > Add new, yes? And the Movie Reviews category should probably be checked, since I set that in the Post Type options…

    Am I doing something wrong? Or have I hit a glitch somehow?

    Thanks!

  8. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Tel: I’ve updated the example to work properly now. I set the id, when it was the name of the input tag that needed to be set. Sorry about that.

    Jeff: This is fishy. I think I’ve fixed the category bug. I cannot duplicate your issue so not quite sure what is going on.

  9. Moises Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 12:47 am

    Henrik,

    The new version looks AMAZING.

    I have tons of ideas and I would be taking advantage of your plugin in many of them.

  10. Jeff Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 1:19 am

    Thanks for your replies, Henrik! — So what’s wrong with the scenario I’ve described? Maybe I can track it down. Is the enabling/disabling of fields supposed to work the way I’ve described? (I.e., set in Movie Reviews > Edit > Screen Options?) Are they supposed to ’stick’ after that?

    Is clicking Movie Reviews > Add New supposed to ultimately take me to Posts > Add New? (The URL ends with /wp-admin/post-new.php?type=EN+Movie)

    What would you recommend as a next step? (I’m guessing something might be messed up in my installation…) I had been running the beta versions and upgraded over top. Should I try resetting? Manually removing the fields from my database? Are there ways it could conceivably conflict with some other plugin?

    (Ow. If I clear out my database, I’ll lose post data that already rely on more-fields fields, won’t I?)

    (I’ve tried in Firefox and Safari, by the way, with the same results.)

  11. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 1:29 am

    Jeff: Yeah, it’s supposed to remember which boxes are hidden or closed for each post type.

    What is the name of your post type: ‘Movie Review’? The the url should be:
    /wp-admin/post-new.php?type=Movie+Review. Does it work if you paste that in?

    I don’t think you need re-install WP, it’s probably a bug in More Fields.

  12. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 1:34 am

    Jeff: Also, is the Error Console in Firefox reporting any errors?

  13. Jeff Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Just got the 1.1 update, and it seems to be working perfectly! Whatever you did, I think that got it. :)

    One last thing, and I’ll be gone — any chance of an admin option to apply visibility settings to all users, maybe of a certain user level? ;-) (This probably bumps into some WP functionality somehow, I assume?)

    Again, this gets my vote for the most awesomely useful WP plugin ever, in case anybody’s ever counting votes. Thanks for your help!

  14. James Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Great work, this is turning into an awesome plugin, thank you :)

  15. Kristof Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    Hi Henrik,

    first of all, congratulations to the new version of more-fields. As you may know, I’ve been using this plugin for quite a while. It has always been the perfect compromise between flexibility and light weight for my customizations, and I must say, with the new version it’s getting close to perfect! There have been a lot of Plugins I tried for customizing the UI and for creation visual editing help for custom fields, but more-fields has always been just what I needed.

    There are two things I’d like to know though about the new version:

    I have a magazine-styled blog where I split up my content into 3 types. Before WP 2.7 I simply included a dropdown with more-fields to select the type of post I want to save.
    Now you can imagine that the new More Fields Version opens great possibilities, I can finally (easily) split up my post-types in the backend too.

    Now my question would be – is there a way to check which post type an entry is? On the template I split up my 3 types by using custom queries that look for the proper post-type (which is saved as a custom field until now).
    How do the different post-types get saved in More-Fields? Can I just access them like a custom field? Or are they set in another way?

    Secondly, I’d like to know the same thing Jeff was asking – can I set the visibility settings for other users in different post types?

  16. Kristof Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    okay, I just found it by myself.

    But this brings me to the next question – how could I change the post type afterwards? If I create a Box where you can change the custom field value of “mf_page_type”, would that work to switch a post from one Type to another?

    cheers, Kristof

  17. Nicole Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Thank you for the new version! I have a few bugs:
    1) If I have a box that has any default values, every post made seems to get the defaults even if that box isn’t supposed to be active for that post type (makes queries a little more challenging)
    2) Under the posts menu I see areas where if I click it gives me options to add a new post of a certain type (for me: events, publications, studies), however it doesn’t actually show the name. I have to guess which one to click.

    I’ve tried poking around through settings to help with these issues, is there something I can try?

  18. Nicole Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    I’m also having trouble with posts that were created in the past. When I go to edit them, sometimes there’s no longer information in the post body (and sometimes in the custom fields as well). That means I have to redo the entire post in order to make 1 change. Any idea why this might be happening? The posts are showing up on the website, so I know the information must be in the db somewhere…

  19. Kim Says:
    December 19th, 2008 at 5:44 am

    I’m starting a new product review blog and was wondering if you had any recommendation for a WP theme to use with More Fields?

    Thanks!

  20. max Says:
    December 19th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    i cant find the place where to tell a post type which boxes to include?! where do i do that?

  21. Zack Katz @ Katz Web Design Says:
    December 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    The checkbox inputs only allow for one checkbox to be checked at a time. This rather defeats the purpose of the checkboxes.

    I’ve tried figuring it out in the code, but haven’t been able to. Do you anticipate updating this functionality in the future?

    Love your plugin, thanks!

  22. Jeff Says:
    December 19th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Max: Click the new post type you’ve made in the toolbar. (You’ll see “Add new ” at the top, instead of just “Add new post”) — click the “Screen Options” tab near the upper right-hand corner of the screen, and uncheck the items you don’t want visible for that post type. Each time you return, those boxes should be gone.

  23. Jeff Says:
    December 19th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Sorry; I messed that up: I was trying to write: (You’ll see “Add new -your post type-” at the top, instead of just “Add new post”)

  24. max Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    ah okay! thats new in 2.7, nice! thanks jeff!

  25. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Nicole: Thanks for bug-reports, am working on an update addressing those.

    Katz: To get the functionality you are hinting at, create a field for each checkbox.

  26. max Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    @henrik: thanks sooo much for this lightweight treasure of convenience! great stuff, works like a charm so far!

  27. Brayne Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    F.Y.I.

    Hiding the boxes is on a per user basis. I wanted more control so….

    I am hard coding this into my functions.php file… I am checking for current user ROLE and displaying the appropriate boxes for that user ROLE(not level)….

    In conjunction with role manager this is VERY convenient. This is a scaled down version but the functionality is there… I’m sure this would be an easy addition to the next version?? of your great plugin… Let me know if you would like more details. Using this… The check boxes inside of “Screen Options” tab don’t show up either.


    function remove_meta_boxes() {
    include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/template.php' );
    remove_meta_box('tagsdiv', 'post', 'side'); // core box
    remove_meta_box('slugdiv', 'post', 'advanced'); // core box
    remove_meta_box('postexcerpt', 'post', 'advanced'); // core box
    remove_meta_box('trackbacksdiv', 'post', 'advanced'); // core box
    remove_meta_box('postcustom', 'post', 'advanced'); // core box
    remove_meta_box('commentstatusdiv', 'post', 'advanced'); // core box
    remove_meta_box('revisionsdiv', 'post', 'normal'); // core box

    remove_meta_box('Custom Information', 'post', 'normal'); // first parameter is actual name of the more-fields custom box
    remove_meta_box('Favorite Color Information', 'post', 'normal'); // first parameter is actual name of the more-fields custom box
    }

  28. Brayne Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    need to add the call to action too..

    add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_meta_boxes')

  29. Brayne Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    Sorry for so many posts… Instead of checking for role…. I will associate the boxes to be displayed with the Post type…. So the post type will only show which boxes I want to be seen. This would control this site wide instead of per user.

  30. Jean Marc Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    Henrik >thx again for the ace plugin man!

    I’m playing around with designing custom icons for post types… and I’m wondering whether we can work something out where rollover and on states mimic the way WP2.7 does it, just for consistency.

  31. Aaron Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 11:59 pm

    There’s a bug with the WYSIWYG custom fields. TinyMCE strips out all paragraph and line break tags. Whenever you update the custom field you need to add them back in with wpautop().

    Add this code at line 532 to fix it:

    if($field['type'] == ‘wysiwyg’)
    $value = wpautop($value);

  32. Aaron Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 12:01 am

    Oh, that goes in more-fields-object.php.

  33. Jean Marc Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 12:16 am

    The jquery example with the date picker featured above seems to be breaking my install’s ability to remember box positions correctly…

  34. Scott Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Hey, awesome plugin. One question, when i insert a value that has a quote (in my case a single quote), there is a slash being written to escape it after i save. I think this may be a by-product of wordpress / php protecting for magic quotes (even though magic quotes in all their variations are off in my php.ini). Is there a way to strip the slashes back off after pulling out of the database before rendering? The slash gets stripped off in the custom field, but in the dropdown for the plugin, it remains. thanks in advance!
    scott

  35. daryl Says:
    December 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 am

    I am using more fields 0.6.8 on wordpress 2.65. and when I press add a box or add a field I keep getting an error page message. What I am doing or not doing to keep getting this message.

  36. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 am

    Scott: So, the slashes appear in your templates? It might be a bug, but you can always use stripslashes() to remove them. Or is it happening in the admin?

    daryl: More-Fields 0.6.8 only supports up to WP 2.5, there is no support, nor will there be for WP 2.6, since the admin changed, and now changed again for 2.7. More-Fields versions greater than 1 are only compatible with WP 2.7. I guess the best thing to do would be to stay current with the WP releases…

  37. Bram Says:
    December 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 am

    HI, this is a great plugin.

    For all of those who want to set settings for which functionality is available for the different levels of users I would recommend to look at the plugin Adminimize.
    Works reasonably fine for me.

  38. daryl Says:
    December 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Thanks. Sounds great.

  39. Don Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 am

    Hi,

    Wondering if this plug-in can be used to put a subhead under a blog so there is a headline, then a subhead, then the copy as it is done in most newspapers and magazines.

    Thanks for your guidance.

  40. Scott Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 am

    hey Henrik! It’s happening in the admin if this helps. It also continues to add slashes if i keep saving my drop down. It appears that it isn’t getting to the front end, there aren’t slashes in my output. I’m not a php expert, if you get a quick second and could point me to the place in the php source where you bring the output from the database back into the admin, i can add the stripslashes(). thank you so much again for such a great plugin!
    scott

  41. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 am

    I’ve released More Fields version 1.2, which can be found here:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/

    It addresses some bugs and adds some features, most notably:

    - Visibility of post types based on user level.
    - Global control of what boxes appears for what post type, as it was before 1.0.
    - Rollover image for More Fields post types in the admin menu (thanks Jean Marc)
    - Fixes problems with page templates and page parents (thanks Jean Marc)
    - Removes default values for hidden boxes (thanks Nicole)
    - Spanish translation (thanks Jean Marc)
    - An issue with quotes in select list values in the Admin (thanks Scott)

    Enjoy, and as always, thanks for all the feedback!

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  43. Reinis Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 am

    Hi there!
    First off all – Thank you, for grat plugin!

    I have a question about how slug option are working?
    I have created a severeal fields with your nice plugin, one of them is named “movie_year” and it contains some predefined values, like 1900:2009

    What I want is to show the url link to the archives pages: What I did:
    I created a loop like this:
    <a href=”/year/”>

    And now I’m confused, should I enter some new loop in archives page, or should I create new page?

    Most interesting thing is that: It kinda works, if you press on movie_year link, it redirects me to front page, and changes some values in left sidebar…

    Well, I’m using wordpress 2.7. more-fields 1.1, and my own theme on some crappy tweaked loop..

    You can test it here: http://kinoblogs.lv

  44. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am

    Reinis: The idea is that if you set the slug to be ‘year’ for key ‘movie_year’, then the url ‘/year/2008/’ would give you a list of all the posts with the movie_year=2008. Makes sense?

  45. Reinis Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 am

    Thats right!
    I’m trying to set it up like that!
    It would be nice if You could write some explanations what shoud we do, to make slugs work correct ;)

    Thank’s again!

  46. Bram Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 am

    Ah I’m happy that global control over which boxes to appear on which post-types is back. I was already switching over to the -not so stable yet- Flutter plugin.

  47. Bram Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 am

    I’m having a compatibility issue with the Event Calender Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-calendar/) and More Fields (no matter which vesion).

    When creating or editing a post-type from M.F. I don’t have the option to hide or un-hide the input boxes that are generated by the Event Calendar plugin.

    Maybe you could have a look at this.

    And further it could be a nice addition to M.F. to have a date-selector added as an input-type.

  48. Bram Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Whoops! I just re-read your documentation and saw that you created an additional plugin to include a datepicker input-format.

    Great!

    My point about incompatibility with Event Calendar plugin still stands though.

    Cheers,
    Bram.

  49. KUHM Cyril Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 am

    Hello!

    Do you think it could be possible to add something to the future version?

    Like a title / permalink management : the possibility to add custom fields in title and the permalink content could be interpreted.

    Thank you!

  50. Scott Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    you rock! I’ll be sure to donate something to help you out. thank you so much.
    scott

  51. Scott Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Hey Henrik, found one more place, on the write / edit screen of the actual post there are slashes as well (in the options output in my side column). But you got the ones from the options_general pages! thanks again

  52. sincro Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Fantastic plugins. Plan to add a preset-data collection for meta in the next future?

  53. Henrik Melin Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    Scott: Yeah, I saw that too — if you download it again, it should be fixed now.

  54. Nicole Says:
    December 24th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    Henrik, I downloaded the new version, but I still seem to have the trouble with the default values (if I look at what is in the custom fields boxes). I tried editing an older post and deleting the values that don’t belong, but they just reappeared.

    I’m also still having trouble with the post type turning up in the left hand navigation. I’ll email you a screenshot so you can see what I’m talking about.

    Thanks a bunch!

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  56. Matías Halles Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    HI, i upgraded to latest version of the plugin, and the checkbox fields weren’t working correctly: on a Post or Page edit page, the label name would show up… i found that the error (or at least what fixed that for me) was on the incorrect definition of the field, in more-fields-object.php on line 283, where i changed %value% for %title% as the label of the field (near the end of that line).

    Hope this helps :)

    oh, and Thanks for this incredible plugin!

  57. themaab Says:
    December 28th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    First, this is such a great and needed plugin. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for.

    But it seems I’m having a problem. I’ve created a new post type, Reviews, which created a new section under the posts in the admin sidebar, as it should.

    My problem comes when I click to Add a Review and save or publish it, it ends up going back under Posts. I look to Edit the Reviews and it shows none.

    Next, when I edit a Post, I see the Page Type dropdown under the Status, but it just has None listed. I was going to change the Review I made to be a Review type, and thought this was the way. I also have old posts I would like to move under Reviews.

    Thanks for any help.
    themaab

  58. Milan Says:
    December 28th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    Several weeks ago for my new project, I explored plugins related to custom fields. By looking to most of them. this plugin was almost everything I wanted.

    I worked with it on local installation (version 0.68), and since I now wanted to try final test on real server before creating production site, I made installed new WP and this plugin. First impression of this plugin was very good, but when I came in phase to actually create block, I was shocked in finding that you removed that screen that used javascript for managing plugins (“green one”) and instead now is used old fashioned way of doing this, so that after every action new page is loaded.

    It is so annoying that I must to wait to page load for EVERY action. Imagine when there are tens of fields in block and when you add one which should be at top of block, how much time is needed to do that.

    So I’m asking is there way to get that old look again?

    My second question is about post/page types. What would happen if plugin is removed? Will those posts/pages work as normal posts/pages?

  59. David L Says:
    December 29th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    Fantastic plug-in! I’d love to see an image-upload interface/field in the future!

  60. deryk wenaus Says:
    December 30th, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    This is an amazing plugin. much cleaner and less buggy than flutter. Kudos. The only error I find on my install of 2.7 is that the label/title of checkboxes is empty. rather strange. Thank you so much for such a great plugin. I hope to incorporate it into a large project I’m working on, and if it works out, i plan to give a generous donation.

  61. deryk wenaus Says:
    December 30th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    You have an amazing plugin, but I’d like to offer two suggestions to make the first experience for users a bit better.

    1. Provide better help text on your site, complete with examples. For example the slug archive feature is great, but hard to figure out. Also, the checkbox usage should be explained better.

    2. Install dummy data so that users can get the feel of what the plugin can do right away. or have a button on the home screen that allows them to install the dummy data with a click.

    this kind of help to first time users will certainly increase the usage of your plugin and therefore donations.

    some minor issues:

    in the options page, you need to change the text ‘Remove ‘Posts’ under the Write and Manage menus’ because that is only relevant for pre 2.7.

    when I click save in the options, the showing and removing of pages,posts, links, does not happen right away, the changes only show if I visit another page or hit save again.

    The wordpress convention is to have edit first and add new second. Did you reverse this on purpose? I’m not sure which is better, but consistency is good.

    some feature requests:

    one feature request might be to specify the length of the fields. for example, a select field should not span the whole screen width if it doesn’t have to.

    In a future version, it would be great to have the ability to control which fields are shown on the edit list page. right now it only shows post title, author, comments, date, etc.

  62. Kel Says:
    December 30th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    I agree w/ deryk’s points. More Fields is right up there. I’ve found 3 other plugs that do similar things, but More Fields is probably leading the pack at this point. Fwiw, Custom Fields Template already does pre-populate some data so the admin gets a feel for how it works. I’m not sure why More Fields couldn’t do the same?

    http://www.badcat.com/journal/wordpress-as-a-cms.html lists some of the others I’ve been playing with – however More Fields is the only one I’m using on live sites. It also doesn’t break everytime a new update comes out ;)

    THANKS!

  63. Pierre K. Says:
    December 31st, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    Hello
    First of all, thanks for your very useful plugin.
    But I have some difficulties on using it on a french blog. I first tried to translate it using poedit 1.4.2, but more-fields seems not to recognize my translation file. I made a more-fields-fr_FR.mo and putted it in your plugin’s directory. Is that right ?
    I have a second problem when I attempt to deal with your Post Types. If I edit any of Pages or Posts, to remove the custom boxes from standard posts, I have a “phantom box” appearing on the dashboard, with no title and only “Add new” and “Edit”. It corresponds obviously to the menu item your plugin creates to manage with custom Post types.

    Any idea on how to remove those oddities ?

    And… happy new year !

  64. Chris Says:
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Wow… just pushed WP up a notch in my book.
    Félicitations !

  65. Bruce Moyle Says:
    January 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 am

    Just a few things,

    Great plugin, has help me a lot to get my site more like a CMS.

    Non critical bug I have spotted in wordpress 2.7 and more fields 1.2 is the left hand admin menu goes a little screwy once activated. It breaks something in the bullet list and the “pages” menu goes a little out of whack. Email me if you want a screenshot.

    Not sure why it would be doing this, I haven’t looked under the hood yet to work it out.

    Anyway, great plugin.

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  67. airhoune Says:
    January 3rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    Hello…

    Superb plugin. Thanx a lot. But I have a question:

    I created a new post type (‘based on post’) but I don’t see it on the left menu. I’m using wp 2.7. Do you have an idea about that?

    Thanx

    airhoune

  68. Ben Says:
    January 4th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Box added by another plugin is not appearing. I am using these plugins…

    All in One SEO Pack
    Geo Mashup
    Sociable

    I can see the boxes in normal Post editor but not in new post type created by More-Fields. Option to turn on the boxes is not available as well. Please help.

    Anyway, great plugin. Thanks a lot.

  69. Takashi Says:
    January 4th, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    Hi,
    First of all, thank you for the great plugin, but I’m having a problem. (I’m using the latest version 1.2 and Wordpress 2.7) When I publish page or post the value in the more fields won’t be saved. I have seen a few people saying this problem in the previous versions but I am using the latest version. Am I missing something?
    If I edit the page or post the value is gonna be saved but it makes me I have to publish and edit the page or post to save the value…

    Please let me know how to solve the problem.

    Also I wish the problem that Bruce Moyle mentioned is gonna be fixed soon.

    Thanks

  70. I NEED HELP! Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    I installed this on WP 2.7, added a box and tried to figure out to use this. I could not so I was about to uninstall when I noticed that EVERY part of my add new page was gone, with exception of the title, content and publich. But all the rest is gone! I checked the settings of this plugin and the page is set to show all these, and yet, none of them area showing! What did this do to my WP install? How can I undo what has been done? Please help ASAP!

  71. Ron Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    Great plug-in. I keep getting “mf_page_type” showing up in my posts, coming from a field that is being auto-generated in my post, when I’m writing. Hw can I get rid of that?

  72. Jeff Klein Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    Thanks so much for this great plugin! Definitely give admins a lot more flexibility. I too am experiencing the same admin issue as Bruce. With WP 2.7 and more fields 1.2, the left admin menu gets messed up. Let me know if there is a fix to this.
    Thanks again!
    Jeff

  73. Will Anderson Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 6:48 am

    I’m having the same problem with the menus as others have mentioned. This is an amazing plugin and I hope it can be fixed soon.
    Thanks for making it!
    Will

  74. Matt Wiebe Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    Terrific plugin, especially for client work. I’ll get around to clicking that PayPal button soon. :)

    I have a bug report here: I’m using v1.2 on WP2.7, and having the plugin activated makes me unable to access my media library in the “Media” tab of the Image Upload tool on the edit post screen. The tab loads, but the images do not show up. Deactivate the plugin, and the images show up.

    Also, the “Gallery” tab for posts with uploaded images attached still works fine. Just the “Media” tab fails.

    I tried it on a couple of different WP blogs, same problem. It’s not a conflict with another plugin either, as I deactivated all other plugins and the problem persisted. Also, I don’t get any errors in my Firebug console.

  75. Dan Says:
    January 8th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    Awesome plugin, thanks. All you need now is a way to upload an image and post the url in the custom field.

  76. Saberj Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 6:47 am

    @Matt: Having the same exact problem. It completely breaks Media Library. No pictures show up with it installed, but they show just fine without it installed.

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