Title: laymonk's Replies | WordPress.org --- # laymonk [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 41 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/replies/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[FormsDB - Save Elementor Forms to Google Sheets & Post Type] What is the database table for the submissions?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-database-table-for-the-submissions/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-database-table-for-the-submissions/#post-14348951) * To anyone reading this, I discovered the database tables being used: * The form submissions are treated as a post type called `elementor_cf_db` … so, wp_posts and wp_postmeta hold the data. * Sadly the actual form data is stored in a horribly huge serialized string in ` wp_postmeta`: in `meta_value` of a meta_key named `sb_elem_cfd`. * This is a huge serialized string with all elements of elementor page display and even all data elements (including all select options of the form) within this one serialized field. YIKES!!!! * There is absolutely no practical way of querying this from SQL. PHP may offer more options to unserialize and parse this data. * Elementor now has a beta feature for submissions that does arguably a better job … and it needs to be enabled in Elementor settings. However, I suspect getting at it’s database tables data will present similar challenges, but at least Elementor’s beta submissions allow easy bulk export of all submitted data. * Best of all, the plugin **Form Vibes** is excellent for this. Like the other 2 already mentioned, it autodetects the submissions (and won’t see already made submissions). It excels in having the data in 2 custom mysql tables that are easy to query from SQL. - This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/). * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Advanced Custom Fields: Extended] Code that used to generate title no longer words – anything changed in codebase](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-that-used-to-generate-title-no-longer-words-anything-changed-in-codebase/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-that-used-to-generate-title-no-longer-words-anything-changed-in-codebase/#post-14251775) * Thanks again, Konrad … * I think I will be using acf_log() all the time now. * Looking forward to reading your article. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Advanced Custom Fields: Extended] Code that used to generate title no longer words – anything changed in codebase](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-that-used-to-generate-title-no-longer-words-anything-changed-in-codebase/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-that-used-to-generate-title-no-longer-words-anything-changed-in-codebase/#post-14251759) * Million thanks for the speedy response, as usual, Konrad … and your suggestion helped me track down the issue. * acf_log is a most useful function to know about … and it tells me that the fields( which are taxonomy terms) are returning an array of the entire taxonomy referenced instead of the individual term selected. * Like: * ``` ( [0] => Term-1 [1] => Term-2 ) ``` * I configured the field to return the taxonomy term selected, and ticked both ‘ Save Terms’ & ‘Load Terms’. * Well, I unchecked ‘Load Terms’ and the problem went away. Apparently, ‘Load Terms’ load the entire taxonomy terms and I never realized that. DOH!!! * For what it’s worth, both ACF Pro & ACFE are the current stable versions * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Document Embedder – let visitors read files without downloading] This plugin breaks ACF-Extended plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-breaks-acf-extended-plugin/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-breaks-acf-extended-plugin/#post-14209381) * Thanks for chipping in your feedback here, Konrad. * Hopefully, that provides enough insight to help isolate the issues … * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Flexible Editor Panel for Elementor] Version 2.3.1 Color Panel Stuck Behind Main Panel](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-2-3-1-color-panel-stuck-behind-main-panel/) * [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-2-3-1-color-panel-stuck-behind-main-panel/#post-14193245) * Not just the color panel, also affects dynamic content selection popups … some would appear behind the panel (in a manner that is almost impossible to use), and others just would not show. Affects multiple elementor widgets from different authors. * Very easily demonstrable by deactivating this plugin, and it took me a while to track down to this plugin. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Advanced Custom Fields: Extended] Another plugin causes a conflict with ACF-E](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-plugin-causes-a-conflict-with-acf-e/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-plugin-causes-a-conflict-with-acf-e/#post-14193238) * Konrad, million thanks for your efforts and for spotting those issues. I am sure the plugin author will appreciate. I am glad I mentioned it here. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Advanced Custom Fields: Extended] Another plugin causes a conflict with ACF-E](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-plugin-causes-a-conflict-with-acf-e/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-plugin-causes-a-conflict-with-acf-e/#post-14188857) * Thanks a million for being on the ball as usual, Konrad. * In my own case, the documents I have added to document embedder are all also used within ACF field groups that are connected to ACF-E forms … and I wondered whether that was the reason. Seems not, since you reproduced it probably without being setup that way. * Also, as part of the conflict with document embedder, I found that cloned subfields of field-type text could not be edited within ACF-E forms (and also even in the backend). * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Document Embedder – let visitors read files without downloading] This plugin breaks ACF-Extended plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-breaks-acf-extended-plugin/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-breaks-acf-extended-plugin/#post-14187000) * Thanks a million for responding … Hoping for a solution asap. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Advanced Custom Fields: Extended] Struggling to understand how to use ‘Generated ID’](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/struggling-to-understand-how-to-use-generated-id/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/struggling-to-understand-how-to-use-generated-id/#post-14186992) * Thanks again for your awesome plugin and immense support of it … I hear you loud and clear on all you have said. I will vote for links in the UI to the specific docs pages in your documentation site. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Document Embedder – let visitors read files without downloading] Can’t edit page with Elementor Pro when plugin activated](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-page-with-elementor-pro-when-plugin-activated/) * [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-page-with-elementor-pro-when-plugin-activated/#post-14181510) * Having said that, I now find a show-stopping conflict with a plugin I cannot avoid using. I will create a new issue for that. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Document Embedder – let visitors read files without downloading] Can’t edit page with Elementor Pro when plugin activated](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-page-with-elementor-pro-when-plugin-activated/) * [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-page-with-elementor-pro-when-plugin-activated/#post-14181364) * It’s working for me with Elementor installed. So, there must be something else creating the conflict for you. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Private groups] How can I choose my own group names?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-choose-my-own-group-names/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-choose-my-own-group-names/#post-14157034) * Hi, * Sorry I have not come back here on this topic. I got dragged into other things and have not looked at it more. * I was also put off by realising that there were already quite a few users in the system, and making the groups work was going to involve a ton of manual work: - First to associate the private groups 1-by-1 to almost a hundred groups. YIKES! - Then to associate each user of more than a hundred users to one or more private groups. YIKES! * The ‘User Management’ section is a nice feature, but only filters by private group’s groups (the roles filter doesn’t really work, and wouldn’t have been that useful anyways … not as much as other user meta fields that mirror the private groups’ names), and that didn’t help me at all in the end. * In the end, I began to doubt this is a practical solution for my use case. Without a way to manually or easily map forum groups to private groups, and users to private groups, I just don’t see it as a solution. * I also peered at the DB to see if I could figure out a pattern, so I could address it with sql or php, but because it doesn’t have it’s own custom tables I knew it was going to be more work and time than I was willing to give it. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Advanced Custom Fields: Extended] Struggling to understand how to use ‘Generated ID’](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/struggling-to-understand-how-to-use-generated-id/) * Thread Starter [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/struggling-to-understand-how-to-use-generated-id/#post-14141605) * Konrad, Million thanks for the most helpful information. Definitely sets me straight on how this is supposed to work. * And I can confirm that this is working perfectly. * Thanks for sharing the slack link too … had a weird problem where the media library will display blank on attempting to select images for image / gallery fields … lasted a couple of hours but it suddenly started working again, so it’s probably nothing to do with ACF-E. * And please please, don’t get rid of that ‘Code section’, without it I would not have delved deeper and figured out the immense usefulness of your plugin. I reckon it’s arguably one of the best selling feature. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Advanced Custom Fields: Extended] Custom Post Types not registering taxonomies?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-not-registering-taxonomies/) * [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-not-registering-taxonomies/#post-14119950) * The concept of support is only a backend presentation thing, in the sense that those taxonomies show up in backend entry forms for the custom post type … but there is no real linkage as such. * To create a link, you don’t just need a field group … you need to define a field of type ‘taxonomy’ within that field group, and in that field’s definition you choose the taxonomy you want it to link to. * See acf docs on taxonomy field type: [https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/taxonomy/](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/taxonomy/) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Advanced Custom Fields: Extended] Filtering a relationship field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filetering-a-relationship/) * [laymonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laymonk/) * (@laymonk) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filetering-a-relationship/#post-14119792) * Your back-end filters should work exactly the same way in ACF-Extended front- end forms as long as the field group is connected to the form during definition. 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