It seems that every day WordPress theme’s are getting more advanced and robust. This is a good thing for the existing developers that know what they are doing in terms of coding, but it puts a lot of new designers and developers in a very tough position. Everyone wants to have a theme full of functions, but the more features you add the more complicated it gets. How do you make it easy for clients to use while still having those cool user-interface and options in your themes? The answer is custom write panels. We hinted that in our tutorial about WordPress Custom Fields 101, but the fact is that a lot of new designers would have difficulties hard coding a custom write panel. So in this article, we are going to share a free plugin called More Fields which lets you add any number of fields into custom meta boxes on any content type (posts, pages, and custom post types).
Why should you use More Fields?
To make it easy for your clients to use WordPress. It is really hard for new users to understand the whole concept of custom fields. This was one of the reasons why it is hidden by default from the post write screen in the WordPress admin area. So if you are going to require your clients to enter any sort of custom field value, it is probably best to give them an easy to use interface to work with. More fields lets you do just that. You can add radio buttons, checkboxes, text fields, text area, wysiwyg editors and much more. The best part is that you don’t have to do the coding for the backend. It is all done through More Fields plugin. Watch the video to see how I did it in less than 3 minutes.
Do you use More Fields plugin? Are you going to use it? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Hi Paul, I will check that out. Does anyone know if there is a step by step tutorial on setting this plugin up?
How about a followup tutorial that shows some options for presenting this info, and then styling it.
you can use the WordPress get_post_meta function to display the fields values
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta
Can I ask what is the trick for then displaying the content on your page? you mention the key description area to pull into our template, how would I do that or can you point me in the right direction to learn this? I have checked out their website but even their I cant find info n adding the correct code to a template page.
Perfect timing (again) from WP Beginner. I am just starting to build a site for a Dude Ranch travel consultant who wanted a sidebar listing for each ranch with about 15 custom fields for each one (amenities and such). This looks like it will fit the bill nicely. Thanks for sharing your knowledge generously.
@andreapernici io lo uso da tempo l’unica pecca è che non a il passaggio in HTML
Great point!
excellent plugin, I’ve been using it for years. it’s better to use a plugin to add these fields rather than bundle them with the theme, because if you change themes, the info won’t be available
It is an awesome plugin! I am using it for a couple of months, it is VERY useful!
Cull plugin. I usually use custom field template plugin.
this is very interesting, I have been using the Advance Custom Fields but have had conflicts with other plugins. I really like the User Interface for this plugin, Will definitely give this one a try. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing about “More Fields” plugin and its video tutorial. Have to implement this customization in my client blogs