Providing multiple content areas in Page Editor

  • buddyglass_00

    (@buddyglass_00)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    I am trying to set up WP as a CMS for a non-blog traditional website.

    I will have multiple page formats (full-page, 2-column, 3-column, etc.)

    I want to accomplish this through styled divs without using the WP sidebar.

    So on some page templates I anticipate having more than one area of editable title/text.

    For those cases, I would envision going to the editor for that particular page template and seeing more than one title field and more than one description field. So in addition to the first pair of default fields (the_title & the_content), I would need to create some similar custom fields that have custom names (the_title_2 & the_content_2, etc.)

    I can’t find anything in my searches about this. Probably has something to do with not knowing proper terminology.

    Any help is appreciated.

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  • lettergrade

    (@lettergrade)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    It sounds like you have experience adding your own custom fields to your templates, yes? Once that’s done, you can make the updating easier on yourself (or your editors) by adding an advanced custom fields plugin. You can create forms so that custom field content is way easier to enter.

    I’ve used this one in the past and it has worked fine: Advanced Custom Fields

    Thread Starter buddyglass_00

    (@buddyglass_00)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Well…

    No I don’t have experience adding custom fields (within the context of WP).
    I am a beginning user seeking advice.
    I saw the documentation for custom fields and it did not quite look like what I need. It seems to be more about adding small bits of info to a post that are used as meta data.

    I want to add fields to the *page* editor, the one that displays when you click Pages from the left menu in the dashboard. It currently has a title field and then a content field with TinyMCE functionality, and that’s it.

    So I need to know how to…
    (a) add more fields to the editor for that page/template?
    (b) then embed the content of those fields in my published pages?

    bemdesign

    (@bemdesign)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Well… to get what you want, you’ll need to learn about custom fields. The advanced custom fields plugin (mentioned by lettergrade) is a good way to make a user interface for inputing content into your custom field. And then you’d create a template page to render your content, custom fields and all, into your 2-, 3-column layout.

    Where to start? Right here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates

    A similar approach – this one uses the Pods Framework plugin:
    Adding a new field to the page edit screen and displaying that in your template – using pods

    Thread Starter buddyglass_00

    (@buddyglass_00)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Well… alrighty then 😉

    I’ll take a harder look at custom fields to see if I can make better sense of it.

    Thanks lettergrade and bemdesign. Will report back on my progress soon.

    lettergrade

    (@lettergrade)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Good luck! It’s really fun once you get going. 🙂

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