On #2, I’d also like to see if someone has an answer to this. I have a custom field that is used to generate sidebar content in WP. When you enter the info for the first time and publish the page, line breaks and paragraph breaks are good. If you make further edits and re-save the line breaks disappear and it all forms one big chunk. I’ve got a tinyMCE editor on my custom field and everything, it’s great. This really does throw a spanner in the works though. How do we replicate the regular post writing field successfully
As far as I know the data from the custom fields is stored in the wp_postmetatda table in the database it has the same type value, ‘longtext’ as does regular post content so that’s not the answer.
There must be something ‘Special’ about regular post content and teh way WP translates it to the DB.
Any answers out there?
Obviously I’d rather not hack any of the core wp files. I don’t want to watch out for them at upgrade time.
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……. update. If you’re using TinyMCE advanced as your WYSIWYG editor for your custom field, there’s a checkbox to no longer remove p and br tags on save ….. seems to work.
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Thread Starter
Tzaddi
(@zodzilla)
Andy, thanks for taking the time to post.
The issue I was having with custom fields was when using them in the FreshPost plug-in. It lets you create Custom Write Panels so instead of having a generic post writing screen, you can have one for Movie Reviews or Job Postings etc.
I found that there was an upgrade to the plug-in that solved my problem. It’s now known as Flutter.
http://freshout.us/goodies/fresh-post-for-wordpress-wordpress-cms/
While the new model in Flutter was overkill for what I needed in this case I think it’s a good path for the plug-in’s flexibility. Highly recommend people check it out if you use WP as a CMS for some specific types of content.
Like zodzilla, Flutter is overkill for what I need too. Andy_woz mentioned using the TinyMCE advanced editor for custom field. Is that possible? Is there a solution like this?
Any leads would be great. I’d love to be able to use a WYSIWYG editor with my custom fields.
Thanks!
Thread Starter
Tzaddi
(@zodzilla)
@freshifreshy, I don’t know, but it would be handy!
I should clarify… Flutter was what I needed in that it let me make a special post screen for writing/managing job postings. The result was more intuitive than using only custom fields would have been.
But, Flutter now has several levels of hierarchy I didn’t need for my case because it makes re-usable groups of fields. But I didn’t need to re-use them. So, to administer my custom panel there was more clicking through levels than I would have liked.
Also, FYI if anyone uses this plugin… when you name your custom fields don’t put a space in the name of the field. They won’t work, but don’t generate an error message either.
