In my first post, I went over how to extend wordpress using custom fields. Here in Part 2, you’ll learn how to make the custom fields look better on the admin side of things. This will make it not only easier for you, but for your clients and users as well.
Note: Since I last posted, Wordpess 2.2 was released. The techniques I’m showing you should work fine in Wordpress 2.1 or 2.2. With that being said, lets get started.
- Download and install the Custom Field GUI plugin on your site. (Don’t forget to activate it)
- Download this file, extract the conf.ini file and upload it to your wp-content/plugins/rc-custom-field-gui/ directory
- That’s it! You should now end up with the screenshot below when you go to write a post.
It looks a lot nicer doesn’t it? Now you have form fields for price, agent, bedrooms etc. It is possible to create an an unlimited number of fields and the plugin also offers the ability to create dropdowns, radio buttons, and text area boxes. I simply made this basic one to show you what’s possible. Please comment with your suggestions so I may improve it the next time around.
Move on to Part 3 - Templates.
I uploaded all the stuff as directed and it looks nice but when I write a post it will no longer let me enter anyting in the normal post field.
Any ideas what might have happened.
Thanks,
JC
Hmmm… what version of Wordpress are you using? Does this problem resolve itself if you happen to deactivate the plugin? Just to confirm, you can fill out all the field except for the post box? Is it grayed out or can you type something and it just won’t let you save the contents?
hello, i was wondering if there was a way to have all the fields from the config file in another language…greek to be exact.
thanks!
You can use any language you wish in that you can name your custom fields whatever you want. So going back through the examples, just use your language for the custom fields and in in the configuration file. Does this make sense?