Pardon my ignorance, but, not being a technical person, I am a little confused about the explanation of how to have the custom field show up .. I upgraded to the 0.15 version.
You say: Added custom fields support. Define both custom field (customfield_name) and value (customfield_value) to use it.
What that’s doing is FILTERING the list, as opposed to displaying the customer field value
So, here’s what I’m trying to achieve. I want the screen to ultimately look like this:
>> ABCDEFG – uvwxyz
>> HIJKLMN – opqrst
>> OPQRST – ijklmn
… etc…
(Where “ABCDEFG”, “HIJKLMN”, “OPQRST” are my post titles, and the “uvwxyz”, “opqrst”, “ijklmn”, etc are my post custom field values for customname: “subtitle”)
So I was hoping to be able to do something like this:
[catlist id=3 orderby=title order=ASC numberposts=-1 customfield_to_display=subtitle]
Which, what I would expect it to do is, since it knows the post ID, it looks for a customfield by the name of “subtitle”, it would:
– write the Post Title (as it does now) (ABCDEF)
– put a SPACE DASH SPACE
– write the VALUE that I’ve specified for the customfield “subtitle” (uvwxyz)
So at the end, it’ll look like:
>> ABCDEF – uvwxyz
VERY SIMILAR to how you have the post AUTHOR to show up. The only difference is, in a post, there’s one author, but there may be multiple customfields. the parameter would have to add a filter. SO, by having the parameter “customfield_to_display=subtitle” , it’s like saying “customfield_display=yes customfield_value=subtitle”
(to be really fancy, in future versions you can have users be able to type multiple custom fields, seperated by comma, OR enclosed in Paranthesis ()… so a parameter like this would display the values of the customfields specified:
[… customfield_to_display=(subtitle, color, size) …]
(Assuming for this exampled, “subtitle”, “color”, “size” are all customfield values). The result of this would be something like
>> ABCDEF – uvwxyz – Red – XL
(Now, if you want to be REALLY REALLY Fancy, then you can even include a feature where people can chose the Divider AND/OR Container to use, so your shortcode would be like:
[… customfield_to_display=(subtitle, color, size) divider=”,” container=”{“,”}” …]
(the container would have two elements, one for the start, and one for the end
The result of this would be something like
>> ABCDEF {uvwxyz, Red, XL}
If there are no containers specified, then no container will be used, and only the DASH right after the POST-TITLE will be used:
>> ABCDEF – uvwxyz, Red, XL
Ok, I think I’m getting carried away at this point! ?? Hope these give you some good ideas for the enhancement of your awesome plugin! ??
