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I was reading this article and, man, did I do the right thing with Custom Field GUI?

I’m second guessing. No, I think it’ll better if I put the label above each control, instead of currently to the left of the control and right-aligned. Imagine, currently, those controls would shift to the left or right depending on the length of your labels; not the case when you have the label above the control. Hmm.

Also, don’t you think it’s better for the workflow if we can put those buttons (“Save and Continue Editing,” “Save,” and “Publish”) below the custom fields?

Custom Write Panel is another WordPress plugin in the work. It is a plugin that will allow users to create custom write panels, alongside the existing Write Post and Write Page panels.

This custom write panels will appear under the Write panel, as Write Book Review, Write Aside, or Write [fill in the blank]. When a user chooses to write post under, say, Write Book Review, the write screen will be pre-set with the assigned category (Book Review). It will display certain set of custom fields (Book Title, Author, ISBN, etc).

Screenshot coming soon. Follow updates in Custom Write Panel section. For those of you who’ve been using Custom Field GUI, get ready to ditch that plugin.

I have updated Custom Field GUI plugin to resolve the issue of custom fields being deleted after a comment is posted. The issue is reported after the release of WP 2.1

Download Custom Field GUI 1.5

Good news! This plugin is compatible with WordPress 2.0-beta-1.

I actually finished coding the GUI for this plugin. (I believe. Hmm, it’s been awhile.) I just need find the time to test it and that’s it.

I’ve been trying to add admin panel for this plugin. It, so far, adds up to so many lines of code. But once the feature is available, there’s no more need to edit the conf.ini via FTP. This admin panel will allow the creation of a new GUI and deletion of currently available GUIs.

Custom Field GUI ver. 1.1 has been released to support form element of textarea. The number of colums and rows for the textarea are customizable.

This WordPress plugin enables the automation of creation of form element user interface for entering Post’ custom field. User will specify the form input type, the subject, and available options (when applicable). The corresponding form elements will automatically appear in the Write Post page.

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Installation

Unpack the file rc-custom-field-gui.zip and upload the folder rc-custom-field-gui to wp-content/plugins/. Activate from WP’s Plugin Management page.

Configuration

This plugin supports the following types of form element: textfield, checkbox, radio, select, and textarea. To specify the custom fields, edit the file conf.ini.

Each entry begins with the subject inside square brackets. The second line specifies its type. The third line, which only applies to type “radio” and “select,” enumerates the available options. Each option has to be separated by a hash mark (#). For type “textarea”, “rows” and “cols” will specify, respectively, the height and width of textarea. The following are sample entries in conf.ini.

[Plan]
type = textfield

[Favorite Post]
type = checkbox

[Miles Walked]
type = radio
value = 0-9 # 10-19 # 20+

[Temper Level]
type = select
value = High # Medium # Low

[Hidden Thought]
type = textarea
rows = 4
cols = 40

The custom fields’ values can be displayed with the regular method or with the help of appropriate plugins.

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