Future Plans and Comparisons

  • Hello, I’m looking for a simple to use plugin that will make life easier when working on recreating fields that are missing when migrating sites from other eCommerce platforms. So far I have found the usability of your plugin to out-preform in many cases Advanced Custom Fields PRO with the downside of only being WC centered? With this much work into your product what are your future plans? Any plans to cover custom posts types / other meta data and/or taxonomies. Your product seems to be more segmented towards WC and not the entire WP framework or other post types like ACFP offers. I assume it’s going pro at some point just like anything else, just curious as to where things are headed. It’s not often I see a product I want to keep my eye on and I have been at this for more years then WP has been around, great work, nice UI/UX, let me know your thoughts.

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  • Plugin Contributor Sark

    (@sarkware)

    Hi,

    Thank you for your interest & feedback.
    Actualy it is an inspiration from ACF, but I made it to address some specific requirement for woocommerce.

    Its not hard to enable this capability to extend for other post types, but do you think it is useful?. Since ACF is doing so well in that space. If there any specific requirement you want me to address, let me know.

    And no, It’s never going to be premium.

    Thread Starter neikoloves

    (@neikoloves)

    Hello, thank you for the reply,

    That is great, ACF is a general global control no question, but a little heavy now. ACF is not as controlled as what you seem to be working on here for the eCommerce world. This is where WC Fields Factory seem to fill that gap and if you open this to all post types it will offer even more flexibility.

    Still a little confused about usage yet and perhaps it’s just me and will need to dive deeper. How do you prevent the fields from displaying if the data is null in any global location, including Archive, Single Page, Light Box and so on? Must you create a null option, yet it doesn’t allow you to do this for select boxes, null should just be the default in all cases as there are many products that do not use these options.

    I’m looking to create many additional fields for a product set of over thousands of sku’s and only display these fields on the front end or anything else related globally if they their is data in those fields and not null. Then if this works, do the same for other field types, but control over the product data fields are the key here in this need and thus exploring all options I can locate to make this seamless for data migration.

    It would also be great to create new tabs in the Product data area to have a greater organized flow and not just inject into already created tabs and/or some type of drag and drop sort order over these Product data tabs.

    Thanks again for you contribution, I’m in the testing phase right now for a fairly complex multi-site project and would really love to use this to fit those needs. Just need to wrap my head around how the display and content controls work from admin to front end.

    Thanks again and all the best.

    Plugin Contributor Sark

    (@sarkware)

    1. I will consider opening to other post types.

    2. Hide Admin fields when there is no value is set, that option is already there, each admin fields there is an option called “Hide Field when no Value”, this one will help you.

    3. Creating a new tab for admin fields, it’s a good idea, and it simple to implement, I will include it in my upcoming release.

    Thread Starter neikoloves

    (@neikoloves)

    Hello again,

    Thank you for your considerations.

    Sounds great, if this works well for this need, will replace (1) ACF PRO /
    (2) ACF: Extended PRO / (3) Admin Columns Pro – ACF add-on and (4) Advanced Product Fields for WooCommerce.

    So in just that case this will be a 4 to 1 win, I’m always about having the least amount of software loaded.

    Can’t wait to see what is next, the new tabs function will just make things that much cleaner in the Product data section with a less is more approach.

    Thanks again and all the best in your day…

    Plugin Contributor Sark

    (@sarkware)

    @neikoloves

    As per your request.
    Creating a new tab for admin fields. this feature is available with the latest release.

    Pls update.

    Thread Starter neikoloves

    (@neikoloves)

    @sarkware Oh exciting, will be sure to check it out and do some testing, thank you so much for all your efforts.

    Just note your site says this now:

    REF: https://sarkware.com/field-rule-wc-fields-factory/

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    Thread Starter neikoloves

    (@neikoloves)

    Question regarding usage, if I create Admin Field Groups how do I have this data displayed, if data is not null, on the font end globally on the product page or other pages that I want to display this on.

    Do you have a sample I could import somewhere to learn from or a test bed to look at, even a set of images would be useful?

    I tried to set the User Fields Location and that had no effect on the front end display of the data fields, which I only want to show when there is data in the field, so null by default.

    Whereas; these are custom options for the user to select and/or enter text requested to be stored with during checkout, admin, emails and so on, anyplace product options would display globally.

    I may not understanding the usage yet, using the wrong tool for the need, tried others are most don’t provide this level of control. Otherwise the feature to add new Tabs for the Product data block as a new tab with a controlled title is working perfectly and I have a clean understating of how that works, including the great sort order / priority.

    I’m closer to removing Advanced Custom Fields and many others plugin if I can understand the usage.

    Thank you again for adding this feature and all your hard work…

    Plugin Contributor Sark

    (@sarkware)

    @neikoloves Thanks for the notification, I enabled the Debug mode for the testing, and forgot to disable. Now its done.

    Thread Starter neikoloves

    (@neikoloves)

    @sarkware and the other query above that? Perhaps that thread “Question regarding usage” was not loaded yet? Thanks again for your time and efforts…

    Plugin Contributor Sark

    (@sarkware)

    To show the admin fields on the front end product.
    In your wp-admin Fields Factory -> Admin Fields open the admin fields group and click on that particular field that you wanted to show it on Front end Product.

    In that fields config view, you will see an option called Show on Product Page set it to Show in Product Page.

    you will also see Hide Field when no Value set it to Yes

    These steps will make this particulart fields to be displayed on the intented product page.

    Thread Starter neikoloves

    (@neikoloves)

    @sarkware oh wow again, boy did I miss that somehow, yeah I completely missed that.

    I was looking for it on a global level for the entire group with all the fields not under each field by field and at first I was trying to setup fields inside Product Field Groups assuming that was how they would be used in the Product Data, it took some trial and error to get past that issue, but I think I understand the usage flow now.

    That explanation was super helpful, I’m seriously loving this plugin, you do amazing work, I know good work when I see it and this is just amazing work.

    Exceeding what I would normally find for the usage, honestly I can only image your dedication and passion into your craft, it shows in the quality of just this plugin design, features and amazing final stable working product.

    I think you may have just replaced 6 plugins for me in 1 tool, so that is always a win in my book, less is always more >

    01. WooCommerce Checkout Field Editor
    02. Advanced Custom Fields PRO
    03. Advanced Custom Fields: Extended PRO
    04. Advanced Custom Fields: Table Field
    05. Admin Columns Pro – Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
    06. WP All Import – ACF Add-On

    Will do more testing, but if I’m right I can remove anything AFC related and just redo my needed 20-30 fields in your tool WCFF, again all this on a test account before taking the idea live on any live working site or I would end up with a serialized database mess.

    I live in testing sometimes for a very long time……… ZzzzzZzzzzzzz lol

    Now just need to solve the worlds problems, starting with some form a database staging merging tool that works and stable with great usability, that and love all your neighbors.

    Thank again and all the best…

    Plugin Contributor Sark

    (@sarkware)

    @neikoloves Thats a nice compliment you wrote there.

    Yes the role for the Admin Fields was to include Custom Fields for the Backend Product Admin Page, Variation View (each) & Product Taxonomy page.

    When needed, you can enable any of these fields to be shown on front end product page as well (yes it’s a fields level config)

    Otherwise you can use Product Fields which is dedicated only for the front end product page.

    I know my documentations kind of s__ks, it’s still work in progress, and I need to prepare more video tutorials.

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