[Plugin: Admin Management Xtended] Mass Editing Custom Fields

Hey Saberj,

I’m going to stop maintaining the plugin with 2.7 being released, so there’s no chance to offer mass editing for custom fields with my plugin. Maybe there’s another plugin that does this already?

Think ‘workaround’ in the meantime. There are many ways to code the section where it calls your Custom Field into the template (let’s say, for purpose of displaying a thumbnail).

You can write the Conditional statements in your theme.

This is not the actual code, but an example of what the code would mean:

If this is Category 2, and the custom field is empty, display this img Category2-default-image.jpg

If this is Category 2, and the custom field says img= ______.jpg, then display that jpg.

If this is Category 3….

See also, more ideas, code and instructions,

https://epicalex.com/default-custom-fields/

https://justintadlock.com/archives/2007/10/27/wordpress-custom-fields-adding-images-to-posts

https://justintadlock.com/archives/2007/10/24/using-wordpress-custom-fields-introduction

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/145968?replies=16

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/139754?replies=11

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Custom_Fields

Hope that solves it for ya! Especially the first link above, and the last link.

Hmmm. Well, it’s not my theme so I’m not so good at the PHP stuff. But I can certainly take a look at some of that, and see if I can patch together a solution. Usually I work best when I have some code that does close to what I need and I can rip it apart and reassemble it….

I really think this solution is on point, if you think about it
https://epicalex.com/default-custom-fields/

Thank You, thank you, thank you.

Unless I’m completely over estimating my ability to follow a set of instructions, that should give me enough to go on to get what I need done. And without extra plugins at that. You’re a big help, Dgold. Thanks again.

You’re welcome. When you get it working, say thanks to that Epic Alex blogger too. I don’t know who that is or anything, it’s just a post that I have stumbled across and bookmarked because it is good.

Note that his method, is not to fill-in anything as a default value in your actual custom fields.

Instead his method is in your theme, to say “display the image from the custom field if it exists” and “display this other default picture if the custom field happens to be empty on this post”.