[Plugin: More Fields] Feature Suggestion: Populated Dropdowns

There are a handful of other plugins that offer similar ‘design meta boxes in UI’ capabilities through a variety of implementation approaches. The More… series offer the best user experience from what I have experimented with (Custom Field Template, Custom Post Type UI, PODS, etc).

One feature I’d really like to see a More… implementation of that Custom Field Template (CFT) supports is to be able to specify source list for a drop-down via PHP code tied to a field as this code sample generates:

//Display Clients in Array
global $wpdb;
$clients = $wpdb->get_results
     ("SELECT post_title, post_name FROM $wpdb->posts where post_type = 'clients' and post_status = 'publish' order by post_title ASC");

$clientCounter = 0;
$values=array();

foreach ($clients as $client) {
	$values[$clientCounter] = '<!-- //' . $client->post_name . ' -->' . $client->post_title;
	$clientCounter++;
}

If, in addition to Values as “permit(ing) a list of pre-defined values” you could also specify post type(s), taxonomy(ies) or filtered lists of post types based on taxonomy(ies) that apply to them, this would be a great addition. It would simplify the data entry view of, for example, a robust portfolio data capture interface, from dozens of taxonomy or post type selectors.

One case example I used CFT for to achieve this involved the following post types:

• Projects
• Clients – who the projects are done for
• Collatoral – Documents prepared during the project
• Services – Corporate skills applied on the project
• Staff – Who was project manager, what team members?

Although operating in a different plugin solution space, the Gravity Forms Custom Post Type Plugin allows such data-capture on the front-end to occur without significant code to populate the fields.

Thoughts?

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/more-fields/