[Plugin: Comment Extra Fields] radiobutton, checkbox, or select field example

Hi
What do you mean by “display correctly”? Ugly display or display at all?

In Comment Extra Field plugin in Admin panel when you choose a different input type (radio, checkbox, drop down, file etc) there will appear an exclamation mark in a blue circle. When you click on it ( from version 1.6, or mouse over till version 1.5) there will appear a tooltip in which you can see examples of how to insert information in your fields. E.g. for a drop down, in the field Drop Down Values you can insert value1 + option1; value2 + option2 (entry+Entry;intermediate+Intermediate;advanced+Advanced).

If you use a custom theme make sure it uses the default WordPress code method comments_template( '', true );. If the theme customizes the display of comments the hooks/filters that Comment Extra Field plugin uses will never be called.

You can use the HTML code field to define a custom field and format it with CSS (for example for a drop-down, in Comment Extra Fields, fill in the mandatory fields as you wish and in Custom HTML code with:

<select name='experience' id='experience' class='my_drop-down-class'>
    <option value='advanced'>Advanced</option>
    <option value='intermediate'>Intermediate</option>
    <option value='entry'>Entry</option>
</select>

)

But…here is a “small issue” that I will try to solve in version 1.7. In Admin Panel comment edit you will not be able to see the value the user chose when filling in the comments’ form on front side (just for custom HTML fields).

Hope this helps. For more details you can email me.

Thanks for your reply…

to answer your question, it displayed only an empty field/box.

But following your instructions I did get the following to work..

< br > < br > Experience < br >
<select name=’f3′ id=’f3′ >
<option value=”Semi-Pro”>Semi-Pro</option>
<option value=”D1″>D1</option>
<option value=”D2″>D2</option>
<option value=”D3″>D3</option>
<option value=”HighSchool”>HighSchool</option>
<option value=”Recreation”>Recreation</option>
</select>

The title/name of the select field would not display no matter what I tried. The selector area was somewhat condensed with respect to the text field that does work. The respective CSS for Comments in the default WordPress 2011 theme must be doing something adverse there… so I added some < br > tags along with my own text that provides a title. I also needed to ensure that the id was the same as in the CEF settings interface so when I went to retrieve in functions.php it was able to obtain the selected value. I bet if I dig into the CSS I will eventually figure out whats going on, but what I have now works just fine.

Thanks for your help

I activated the default WP theme (Twenty Eleven).
some extra info not related to CEF:
Tried to upgrade the theme to version 1.3 and put my local wordpress themes admin section into maintenance. In the wordpress folder the failed upgrade creates a file with name .maintenance. Renamed it so I was able to download the last theme’s version and install it manually.

@tulanch: maybe informations here would help you There are some print screens and the code I used to define the field (there is the same display in both versions 1.2 and 1.3)