Custom Post Editor?

  • Hi everyone, I’m looking for something that may not exist. Potentially a plugin. I would like a simple post editor.

    something that would use fields rather than the large box of open text.

    Something like:

    Title:
    [ title can be typed here ]
    Tags:
    [tag1] [tag2] [tag3]
    Category:
    [category1]
    Image:
    [drop down to select image from computer or media library]

    Is something like that out there? I want it to look more similar to a basic questionare almost.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Hi
    Rather than looking for a custom post editor, I think what you might need is a plugin that allows you to create your own custom fields. There’s quite a few; go to add new plugins from WP Admin and search “custom fields”. If you want users to provide input using the fields you’ve created, you need to use forms. There are plugins that enable creation of forms too. Once you have your fields, you’ll also be able to display specific field content by creating your own shortcodes to use in your post editor.

    Hope this helps.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    I agree that a custom fields or forms plugin might be a better fit for your goals. But FWIW, wp_editor() will output a TinyMCE editor. It’s basically just a HTML form element. You’ll be responsible for other page content and handling of the form submission. A forms or fields plugin would typically handle this for you.

    Thread Starter teabone3

    (@teabone3)

    I found a plugin called “Pods”, to create custom fields and that works perfectly within the Post Editor, but now I’m trying to figure out how to get those fields submitted to appear within the published posts.

    Basically I’d love to have it so people can contribute posts but using custom fields.

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction though, custom fields seems like the best way to go and I actually quite like the variety of options. Like drop-downs, ratio buttons, country list, media uploading etc. Now to find out how to get those submissions to appear on each post they are made in ??

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    I’ve not used Pods but from what I’ve heard you’ve made a good choice. I’m unsure about Pods, but similar plugins in the past provided shortcodes and/or functions with which you can output saved values in content. Shortcodes can go directly in content, functions belong in template code or could be made into a shortcode if not already provided for. More lately, it’s possible to provide plugin blocks to use in placing saved values in content. I’m unsure if any fields plugins have implemented blocks or not.

    I’d expect what shortcodes or functions you could use would be in the plugin’s documentation somewhere. If you can’t find such a reference, I recommend asking in the Pods dedicated support forum.

    I assume post related field values are saved in post meta. If so, you could always echo out the return from get_post_meta().

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