Pre-Populated Custom Field Manager/Plugin? WordPress

Giri comments:

Here are the steps :

Dashboard -> Magic fields -> Posts (Edit fields/groups ) -> Create a field -> Fill the necessary details -> Save

Do the above steps for all fields

Giri comments:

Here is the sample interface screenshot
http://s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/magic-fields-2/screenshot-1.jpg?r=501790

Giri comments:

Let me show you an example:

To create a custom field called "Award" follow this steps.

Dashboard -> Magic fields -> Posts (Edit fields/groups ) -> Create a field ->

Label: Award
Name: award (No capital letters)
Help Text: Please enter award details
Type of custom filed : Textbox
Required? : If yes check it
Can be duplicated? : I think this field doesn't require duplication. So don't check it.

Then save custom field.

If you click "Posts -> Add new" You can see your field at the bottom.

foulmouthedleon comments:

This looks like it'll do the trick for me. One quick question...

I've already got nearly 7000 reviews in my database. As you can see from my screen shot, a field is called "AuthorEmail" but the Magic Fields won't let me enter that in, instead it's got to be "authoremail".

I really don't want to go back and retroactively change all 7000 of my old custom fields. What options do I have? Or are "AuthorEmail" and "authoremail" the same (I have no idea if case matters or not).

Giri comments:

Hello foulmouthedleon,
Don't worry about that.

You don't have to change anything. You can able to display magic field values by using the following code. You should include it in your template (single.php) file

<?php echo get('award'); ?>

You can use the following code instead of above code if you don't want to display empty custom fields :

<?php
if (function_exists('get'))
{
$award = get('award');
if ($award)
{
echo $award;
}
}
?>

Hope that helps.

Giri comments:

Please note, You need to insert code in the template for each and every custom field. I given the above code by taking you 'award' custom field sample. 'award' is the value which you give for custom field "name".

Take a look at this screenshot
http://s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/magic-fields-2/screenshot-1.jpg?r=501790

Here name is textfield1.

So you should duplicate the above code and replace all 'award' values with 'textfield1'

I mean like this

<?php

if (function_exists('get'))

{

$textfield1 = get('textfield1');

if ($textfield1)

{

echo $textfield1;

}

}

?>

Your existing 7000 reviews will use existing default custom fields.
Your new posts will use magic fields

Giri comments:

And one more point: As i mentioned earlier you cannot use capital letters while filling name. Thats why you couldn't enter "AuthorEmail"

foulmouthedleon comments:

Ok, that does make sense but if I add the code "award" in my template.php file as you mention, will that affect the other reviews that use something like "awards"?

What I mean to say is that if I go forward using these "new" values instead of my older, established ones, will it affect the way my pages are shown? I use widgets to display the custom fields from my existing reviews, but don't know what I'll need to do if those custom field names are changed by using this plugin.

Does that make sense?

Giri comments:

No it will not affect others

Giri comments:

If you are really afraid then give unique "name" while filling values. I mean like 'mfaward'.
That name field is only for template functions. So you can give any name

foulmouthedleon comments:

Ok. I'm not really sure how this is going to work, but I'll give it a try.

Can I just give you access to my site and you can see what I'm talking about?

Giri comments:

Sure. send me the login details via PM

foulmouthedleon comments:

Actually MagicFields "broke" my site. I was getting a white screen, but when I removed the directory, all is back to normal.

Has this issue been reported by anyone else?

Giri comments:

No, I'm using magic fields for more than 6 months. I never experienced that problem. Let me see whats wrong

Giri comments:

I just logged in to your site. I see this error in plugins page

<blockquote>The plugin magic-fields-2/main.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.</blockquote>

Giri comments:

Hi let me install it and try again.

Giri comments:

Hi i just installed magic fields 2 plugin. Please don't remove it

Giri comments:

Hi there is no problem with that plugin. Everything looks fine. If you get white screen please reload the page. I see you configured everything correctly in the dashboard. Now add the template code. You site will be fine. I can't access front end. I see server error. Could you please fix it and give access to front end?

foulmouthedleon comments:

That's the same screen I was seeing before I removed the plugin. I can't even get into the back end.

All I know is that when I removed that plugin, my site worked and now it's back and I see a white screen. There's got to be a correlation between the two.

Giri comments:

Could you please tell me where you see white screen? Did you refresh that page?