Advanced Custom Fields v3 beta

Ross

Sounds great! I would really appreciate an update script though as I use this plugin on quite a few sites. One of which, has hundreds of posts that rely on it. It would be a real shame if these sites had to be stuck in v2 for all eternity.

Now that you’ve phased out custom tables, this won’t be a problem again will it?

Federico Schafer

Hi Elliot! This is GREAT!! I have already bought the repeater addon and really love it.
Now this is really good news. I’ll check this new release out. The changes made are really really welcome.
I´ll be waiting for the register_field function tutorial !

Thanks!.
Federico (from Argentina)

Ejub Bicic

I will definitely help testing the beta and report bugs, I really love this plugin! You’re doing a great job! Hope you’ll have time to create a update script, I would donate if that’s what it takes, timesaver when you run the plugin on several wordpress sites. Thanks! And again, keep up the good work!

Ejub Bicic

Thanks for the update script, perfect! I’m running wordpress 3.3 beta 1, should I still report bugs?

Chris

The updater did not work on one of my sites. Not a big deal–the site wasn’t in production–but I thought I’d say something. All the data appears to be in the database, the site just isn’t recognizing it now.

Christopher Wulff

Love this plugin and the incredible pace of development! Great work.

I noticed in the announcements for WordPress 3.3 that they were now making their add/edit post editor available to plugin editors so you wouldn’t need to load your own. Is that something we’re likely to see included? I just find the visual/html tabs much easier to work with than the html box pop-up that strips any formatting.

Thanks again and I hope you’re developing something new that we can pay for. I’ve bought everything you’ve offered and this is still the steal of the year.

Jon

Just successfully migrated a standalone site currently under development with over 4000 pages using ACF fields and repeaters throughout. The Metabox issue was making admin really tough, so pleased that is fixed, really looking forward to some detail on the customisation of fields.

Keep it coming!

Niall

Delighted to see active development continuing. My biggest feature request would be to be able to output the code for our custom meta boxes. A paid extension that could do this would be fantastic, as theme developers could design their meta boxes easily using ACF, output the code and add their custom meta boxes to their theme within functions.php, distributing their theme without any plugin dependencies etc.

Cody

Looks like the main Post/Page editor breaks in WP 3.3 Beta 1, although there are a lot of big changes there with the new version of WordPress. Hopefully that doesn’t cause you too much of a headache.

Andy

I’m 100% behind the order-able metaboxes, the main feature I thought was lacking from v2. A firm handshake to you.

Mike Rodriguez

I have updated to version 3.0 on about 5 sites running ACF with repeater fields and the options page, the update script worked like a charm. Metaboxes are working fine. One small issue, is that with the color picker field, I select the color I want and the entire field turns that specific color, but when I publish the post, the field turns to white again, with the color code remaining intact. Is that even a bug, or is that how it’s just meant to be?

Either way, Great plugin and a great update. Where is there a donation link for the plugin?

Logan Greer

I’m currently working on a site for a client, and it looks like ACF is EXACTLY what I need. Especially in it’s 3.0 iteration. Unfortunately, the site needs to be completed soon!

So I have two questions:

1) When is the proposed release date of v3.0?

2) If I develop the site with the v3.0b2, will it be updated (or updatable) when the final release comes out?

Marlus Araujo

Great work!

Now that there is no custom table, is it easy to search, query, group and order posts by ACF fields?

Thank you for developing such an awesome plugin and the frequent updates!

sebastiaan

Hi,

Is it possible to put a repeater inside a repeater? This is the single most wanted feature by our company.

I’m not sure if it’s not possible or if I missed something.

Adam D

Sounds pretty cool
Nice to see the new version using post_meta so intergration should be a lot easier and cleaner!

Supporter

Elliot, you are amazing! No custom tables is simply fantastic news—now we’ll be able to import/export WXR files and still get to use ACF in all its glory. Thanks for all your hard work!

Holly Knott

This looks great! One thing I’m confused about – is there a stylesheet associated with it? How does WordPress know where on a page to display these custom fields, what size to make them, etc.? Is that handled in the normal stylesheet?

Federico Schafer

Hi Elliot. Some feedback from testing beta2:

I noticed that after activating the ACF and using it a bit, the regular custom fields drop down gets “poluted” with ACF meta_keys that could be hidden (with an “_” preceding its key in the code). Some examples ar “allorany”, “layout”, “position”, “rule”, “show_on_page”, “field_4e9f….”.

One small suggestion (also from previous releases): when adding a new field, you type the field label and when ACF automatically generates de field name (ID), it does not replace accented characters like á, é, í, ó, ú that are really common in Spanish and other languages. This usually leads to accidentally have IDs with invalid characters.
It would be great if ACF would replace them with ther equivalent unaccented (á -> a, é -> e…).

Hope this helps a bit. Sorry for my English.

Your plugin is GREAT. Keep your outstanding work.

Federico

Thanks

Jussi

Hello Elliot,

Awesome plugin keeps getting even better all the time, which is just GREAT!

I’m really looking forward this final release of 3.0 and hopefully you get all the small and little bigger bugs fixed away. My main concern at the moment are editor labels, which I’ve pointed out on support forum also(TinyMCE button labels and localization broken).

Sorry if I’m too pushy on this one, but since I don’t see it on ToDo -list, I’m a little pessimistic. Hope you understand

Anyway, good job and keep rocking to make this plugin one of the best on the market!

Sascha

Hi Elliot,
that is all great news! It will make ACF an even better plugin than what it already is!!!
Will download and start beta testing right away. Sticking for now with wordpress 3.2 until official release.

Antoine

I have installed beta 3 two days ago on a scratch project, and it works like a charm.
This seems quite normal, as issues in this new release should be in the data upgrading.

My remarks :

- I already use ACF in other project, and I am very pleased to see drag&order functionnality is back !

- I have not used WYSIWYG or color picker.

- I like the new Taxonomy rules, while it doesn’t perfectly fits my need :
I would love to be able to define “show when post_type is xxx and taxonomy is yyy or zzz”.
That is something to consider for a future development in my opinion.

- I just see we can now create our own field types : WAOOOOH !
I will test this anytime soon, but that’s is AWESOME !

Well to conclude, that’s a great piece of work your doing…
Thank you SO much.

Antoine

Admin Custom Columns doesn’t seems to work anymore for me.
I tested beta 2 & beta 3.
Does anyone experience the same or have a solution ?

Antoine

I have another bug issue with the Location Rules admin UI.

My failing setup is :
- Page Type is equal to Child Page
- Page Parent is equal to … {bugged dropdown} …

The drop down output is very strange, apparently it has my pages’ structure, but with the title label at each line. Therefore, I can’t manage to find & select the good parent page.

Do you experience the same ?

Gabriel Tadeu

Hey Elliot, I’m testing the third version and i found a bug.

When i choose use the acf in a particular page children, the dropdown show the same name for all options: http://ScrnSht.com/iwlfku

Antoine

I think I found a new bug on the select field :
‘Allow Null?’ & ‘Select multiple values?’ options doesn’t save their value.
I am using latest beta 3.

By the way, I am still having trouble with the new Taxonomy Rule Location Option.
A new option ‘Taxonomy Hierarchy’ with : ‘is parent of’, ‘is child of’, ‘is equal to and child of’ extra set of options would be definitely so good, don’t you think ?

Jess

I have installed ACF V.3 Beta with repeater activated.
I added a file field within a repeater field.
When I go to the Add Post Page I see the words “no file selected” with a Button “Add File”. However pressing the button does not do anything.

I’m Guessing this is a bug! Please Help.

James McKenzie

Hey Elliot,

Version 3 beta 3 is looking really good! I’m so happy you’re using the built-in wordpress tables for storing custom field values. Its going to make my life so easy transferring all my custom fields I set up in other plugins over to ACF.

I run a multi-site that needs the same ACFs on each site. Are you planning on re-introducing the Import/Export feature?

Thanks!

Chad

Can anyone help me ? When I click “upgrade database” nothing happens. I just get a blank screen. All of my wordpress options are in the left column, but the main part of my page just goes blank.

Also – when I go into the pages – there is no longer a wysiwyg editor. It just dissapeared – before trying to upgrade. I can’t get it back.

I even deleted the plug in – then re-installed it, and it is still asking for the database updgrade, and the previous fields for the acf plugin are still there…figured it would delete it completely, but it did not.

I am not a “pro” at php – this took me a very long time to get working in the first place…please feel free to email me directly c h a d m u s g r o v e @ l i v e . c o m.

Andre

Hi, i just updated to the new version and all hell broke loose I really need to know how can i solved this because after so much work…now its just frustrating..

I was using this code to get my post_objects : $local = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘local’, true);

And $local return the post_object ID! With that i could get all data from that post object…but now it seems that it doesn’t return an ID anymore but an object like this: a:1:{i:0;s:4:”1411″;}

Because of that everything is broken now

Please help me solve this urgently!
Thanks u in advance

Simon

Hi there,

thanks for this amazing plugin!

An amazing feature to add would be the possibility to create a search widget that scans through multiple ACF and retrieves the pages / post that match all search criteria.

There is currently no simple way of doing this and i think a lot of people could benefit from such an implementation!

In my scenario, i am trying to search properties and filted by number of guest properties can host, number of bathrooms, etc..

I have already posted in the support forum but i thought i’d share the idea here too!

Thanks again,

Simon

Andrew

We need taxonomy field!

Martin Tomov

Hi Elliot,

Thank you for your great work on the ACF plugin. It really does a great job and saves a lot of time, especially the repeater. I see on the WP extend site it says “Compatible up to: 3.3″. Sorry for the stupid question but is it supported in 3.3 or is supported up to 3.3 (and the last WP release is not yet supported). I am asking you this before I upgrade all the sites I am using your plugin with just to ensure that all of the new things in WP Sony will be supported – like new single media button etc.

Thank you for your time and keep up the good work!

Best,
Martin

spirit

Nice! Great work. Does this version includes revisions tracking for the custom fields ?

Salvo

Hi Elliot,

I have purchased your ACF 3.0 and I consider it a great plugin.
I have noticed a bug in the select field and I have notified it to you.
I have wrote you several email and I have also post a topic on the support forum with a detailed explanation of the issue but I never received a response.

Here you will find the post url: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/support/discussion/1485/select-field-problem

Thanks in advance for your support.
Regards
Salvo