Comments on: How one WordPress plugin can replace many

By: James McKenzie

James McKenzie — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:22:00 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on the repeater feature. I’ve been looking for that functionality for months! (If anyone else is curious, the store is here: http://plugins.elliotcondon.com/shop/)

By: James McKenzie

James McKenzie — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:37:00 +0000

Here’s a premium plugin that does custom posts, custom fields, and custom taxonomies, all in one!

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/custompress

Truly efficient.

By: fldtrace

fldtrace — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:58:00 +0000

Custom Field Template is far much better plus has the same text editor as main one where you can upload images. Easy to use by the client too.

By: Man of Gadgets

Man of Gadgets — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:46:00 +0000

Hmm makes more sense. I think it would be a great idea for WordPress designers to think about this when designing themes aswell to make everything that much more compatible and compact.

http://www.ifitneverhappened.com

By: exotec

exotec — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:59:00 +0000

In my lastest project I tried these plugins but in the end I took Drupal. If wordpress could get the flexiblity of cck or as of Drupal 7 now called fields (and with views you can do almost everything), it would be a much better cms (also wp could have better db-settings and language integration, instead wobbly plugins getting this job done).

By: elba00

elba00 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:07:00 +0000

I would not recommend More Fields as it is not compatible with a whole bunch of other essential plugins. Although it was a big promise along with More Types, More Taxonomies and the never finished More Roles it looks the whole project has been abandoned for good. But the main reason I don’t recommend is that there is virtually no support and no updates/bugfixes. The More Plugins’ site itself is half-finished: http://more-plugins.se/plugins/more-fields/template-functions/

There are other alternatives like Advanced Custom Fields. Be careful when developing WP sites, after choosing custom fields/taxonomy based plugins there is only a hard way changing them.

By: PauldeWouters

PauldeWouters — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:54:00 +0000

very creative use of custom fields! and thanks Barry for the link to advanced custom fields, I’ll give it a try

By: kingkool68

kingkool68 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:41:00 +0000

I wrote my own Meta Box framework to easily add custom meta boxes on the fly as a site I’m working on needs them. It’s nerdy and geared more to developers but you can control when they show up on the backend based on what categories are ticked.

http://svn.kingkool68.com/projects/metabox/

Search Regex is an awesome tool for doing search and replaces across all of your content. A must have for cleaning up old content or migrations http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-regex/

By: matthillco

matthillco — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:39:00 +0000

I found More Fields and Magic Fields a bit flaky in their execution. There are many other plugins that allow you to do similar things, and they all have strengths and weaknesses. Off the top of my head I can also think of

Easy Custom Content Types (has Meta Box creation)
Custom Field Template
Verve Meta Boxes (was very nice, but no longer supported)

For the coders who want more flexibility, you should also check out the awesome WP Alchemy class, which allows fully customised meta boxes including all your own HTML and CSS for making them look good. It also allows repeatable fields mentioned by Barry, and it’s FREE! Does require coding though — there’s no UI.

By: jniden

jniden — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:09:00 +0000

Still prefer magic fields