[wp-hackers] Turn on custom fields from plugin

[Guus (IFS)]

Well, had to start somewhere :)

The story: I'm not familiar with Wordpress but needed a quick way to store 
the data so found some suggestion about custom fields, so I used that 
featured and made some changes to the theme. And then someone suggested to 
promote our project http://www.inspiration-for-success.com/ by publishing 
plugins. And then first our mailer plugin was developed and then I converted 
my theme changes into a plugin :)

So yes, any better way of course I will consider. Thanks for the 
suggestions.

My main issue now is testing and having bugs reported. You guys have any 
clue how to get that?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Hogg" <brian at brianhogg.ca>
To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Turn on custom fields from plugin


>I think what Marko was hinting was to use a custom meta box instead, which 
>would allow you to provide a nicer user experience vs. showing all custom 
>meta fields from your plugin and others.  Documentation here:
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box
>
> Make sure to add a check if it's an autosave call:
>
> http://techwithketan.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/auto-save-problem-for-custom-variables/
>
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> On 2013-08-07, at 7:54 AM, "Guus \(IFS\)" 
> <guus at inspiration-for-success.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I think that's just the answer I needed.
>>
>> I use the custom fields for my SEO plugin: 
>> http://wordpress.org/plugins/ifs-seo-simple/ to set the title tag, meta 
>> description tag and meta keywords tag and got feedback that it was not 
>> clear where to put the data (and that could still use some more 
>> explanation and screendumps...).
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marko Heijnen" 
>> <mailing at markoheijnen.nl>
>> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 7:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Turn on custom fields from plugin
>>
>>
>>> See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_type_support.
>>>
>>> Also why enabling something like that? It doesn't really provide a good 
>>> user experience.
>>>
>>> Marko
>>>
>>> Op 7 aug. 2013, om 12:57 heeft "Guus \(IFS\)" 
>>> <guus at inspiration-for-success.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for a way to turn on the visibility of custom fields 
>>>> through my plugin. Google search didn't give me a quick answer to this.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a 'legal' way to turn on this option for a (or all) users?
>>>>
>>>> Guus
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