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Not sure what you mean. I don’t want to edit the Title. In fact that is editable in the list page already.

All I want to do is have the option to switch to the full editing of a page after I’ve entered the Quick Edit mode instead of having to close that QE and then click the tile of the page. Make sense?

No it’s not. Check out screen 1 below. I then clicked on Recent Projects and got screen 2 which has the page open/expanded. See how the title is no longer even there? It’s now editable. Honestly, that’s half the problem with the UX on this. You eye goes from a nice block based view of the page details with little context to what you are actually editing. Sure it’s there in the edit box, but with no contrast to help your eye find it.

I’m still thinking the posts name should be added after QUICK EDIT “PostName” with PostName as a link to edit it fully. I know it’s anal, but QUICK EDIT for a bunch of similarly unimportant fields doesn’t give a user context for that whole editing area.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgl2a1hmec5563j/Screen.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgl2a1hmec5563j/Screen2.png

Best,
Rich

Well, after looking and looking I still can’t find an examples of how to do this. I still need to be able to add customized meta fields that are user friendly. By that I mean they have plain language Labels that are static (not simple custom fields that are open ended) and input fields that are constrained like those in this example:

https://blog.genuineinteractive.com/post/adding-custom-field-gui-to-custom-post-types-wordpress-3.aspx

This example does not work, but it shows what I am talking about.

Why in the world is this so difficult?? Also, I am very curious what the usefulness of having a custom post type with custom fields that are only fillable through code?? That’s what most people are talking about out there. Sure, if we have a very basic task that we manage all through code, but what about a custom post type that we want to the User to enter data for? Doesn’t it seem obvious that we want them to have a guided, controlled input form? Sure does to me.

This is why your suggestions of the Using Custom Fields does me no good.

Anyone else out there who knows about this?

Thanks
Rich

I’m sure you are right. It doesn’t help that these terms are bounced around to freely. ??

So, in this example: https://kovshenin.com/archives/custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/

He talks about these larger container type entities that appear higher up in the nav bar and that I call custom post types. I setup his podcast example, and I can see that when I have a few test podcast entries I can see the multiple column view (with the columns specified in my function call). What I can’t figure out is how to edit these columns. E.g. status, or for sale, or length. There has to be a way to expose these fields(meta tags maybe) but the edit screen for the Podcast simply has one big text field. That’s in.

Any ideas? Thanks for your feedback on this.

Rich

Thanks. What I really need is info on custom posts, not taxonomies. The way I understand custom taxonomies is that they meta data for the whole post. I thought the purpose of a custom post type was that it would say 5 fields all editable and all selectable for placement on a page individually. I’m trying to setup those extra fields on a newly created post type.

Yes, you are correct. I was sure that was set already. Thanks!