This video was created for showing at the Post Meta project weekly IRC meeting at #wordpress-core-plugins.

Outline of video

In the video Herb Miller:

• briefly describes the requirements behind the oik-fields approach to handling post meta data
• shows examples of each field type
• including sample extensions to the base set: mshot, star rating and userref
• shows examples of field display using [bw_fields]
• shows examples of fields being used in other shortcodes: [bw_pages], [bw_new]
• explains how the requirements are implemented using APIs from oik-plugins
• Shows API links from which to start exploring the oik-fields solution
• Lists the unique features of the oik solution
• Admits to limitations; features not yet implemented… which you will find in other solutions
• Mentions a couple of proposed enhancements.

Post production notes

• Original blog post: Requirements for Post Meta plugins
• The post type used for the examples was called “oik-fields”.
• This CPT name should not be confused with the plugin name.
• The fields were created using the oik-types plugin.
• Each field name used is prefixed with _of_.
• I forgot to mention the action hooks which allow plugins to extend the types.
  • oik_pre_form_field – action
  • oik_pre_theme_field – action

Related

• oik-fields – Field Types
  • checkbox field type
  • currency field type
  • date field type
  • email field type
  • noderef field type
  • numeric field type
  • select field type
  • text field type
  • textarea field type
  • URL field type
  • Virtual field type
• oik-fields – Field Attributes
• oik-fields – Implementing a new custom field
• oik-fields – unique features

See also

Post Meta Project Overview