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1. seanhawkridge
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hello -

   I've been using Developers Custom Fields on a number of sites and it's excellent - I'm not sure what I'd do without it!

   I was wondering if there was still a plan to be able to add multiple values for fields - as mentioned in the to do list on your site?

   I'm not sure I've quite got my head around what this would look like, but there are situations where, for example, I need to create an itinerary of an unspecified number of days, and would love to be able to create Day 1 and for the user of the site to be able to add days and descriptions using this plugin.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/developers-custom-fields/

2. Steve Taylor
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi Sean, glad the plugin's so useful.

   Multiple fields I had a go at ages ago and got stuck. I called it "field cloning", because the idea is that you could flag as field as being clonable, and it would get something like a "+" icon next to it for the user to add another value for the same field. I'd love to get it done but it's not critical because there are other approaches that can approximate this.

   Depending on the data, you could use a textarea and get the user to enter multiple values on separate lines - then explode a value by a newline character or something.

   You can dynamically build up your field definitions array for slt_cf_register_box, based on a value that should work well as an upper limit, i.e. create field_1, field_2, etc. with a for loop.

   I'm sure there's other workarounds you can come up with to dynamically adjust to individual posts using the plugin's hooks.

   But yes, really it needs a system. All I can say is, it's on the to-do list. And I'm open to patches ;-)

3. seanhawkridge
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Great - I'll get tinkering, and keep hoping for an official feature further down the line.

4. Lumpysimon
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hi Sean/Steve

   This tutorial might be handy: http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/reusable-custom-meta-boxes-part-3-extra-fields

   Specifically the bit on repeatable fields near the bottom.

   Maybe it's possible to incorporate this concept into this plugin? I might give it a go myself in a couple of weeks once I'm less busy.

5. Steve Taylor
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   @Lumpysimon, thanks! I've not found time to work on that feature at all. It would be great if you could crack it!

   I'm flat out until mid-Feb or so, but do shout if you have any queries about how the plugin code works.

   Would it help you if the plugin was on GitHub?

6. Lumpysimon
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   that would be great if you're up for it, otherwise i can just contact you direct via your website.

   no big hurry as i'm unlikely to have time during the next 2-3wks myself.

   cheers
   simon

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