Custom fields

[davidmaxwell]

Hi there,
Many thanks Barry for the help earlier, I’ve had a look and I think I’ll be able to map the additional fields using an array I found. (initial testing seems to work anyway).

On another note, I wanted to add some custom fields (to be displayed alongside the built in fields Date, Time, Cost etc). I know I can add custom fields from the admin but wondered if you could point me in the right direction to the template file where these are set up.

I managed to add fields using a previous version of the plugin (pre 3.0) which was fairly straight forward but I know the file structure has been completely rebuilt since then (most of the meta stuff used to be contained in single.php which was very easy to manipulate). Any guidance would be most appreciated.

Many thanks!

[Barry]

Hi!

Many thanks Barry for the help earlier, I’ve had a look and I think I’ll be able to map the additional fields using an array I found. (initial testing seems to work anyway).

Glad that worked out/that you’re on track there 🙂

I wanted to add some custom fields (to be displayed alongside the built in fields Date, Time, Cost etc). I know I can add custom fields from the admin but wondered if you could point me in the right direction to the template file where these are set up.

I managed to add fields using a previous version of the plugin (pre 3.0) which was fairly straight forward but I know the file structure has been completely rebuilt since then

So it’s important to note first of all that the means of implementing customizations like this (in relation to the display of event meta data, that is) is likely to change in the very next maintenance release and, though I can’t commit to a specific date for that release, it’s close enough that I wanted to flag it up. Right now you would need to work with the meta factory to make these kinds of changes … but we’re going to switch back to a template driven approach which ought to make this a lot easier.

With that in mind, I can certainly offer some guidance here but it may well be a smoother, less painful experience to hold off for a week or two 🙂

[davidmaxwell]

Awesome advice as usual, many thanks.
It may well be worthwhile holding off as you suggest as we will want to be able to update to new releases when released. Additionally, I really liked the way it worked before so that’s a bonus!

Thanks again.

[Barry]

Excellent, that’s probably the best path here then 🙂

I’ll go ahead and close this thread but as always if we can assist with anything else please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed.

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