Custom Field Widget
The Custom Field Widget displays values of custom field keys, allowing post- and page-specific meta sidebar content with limitless applications. Custom Field Widget is for WordPress 2.6.x and features: Multiple widget instances possible Widget-specific optional title and text Conditional functionali
About this tool.
The Custom Field Widget displays values of custom field keys, allowing post- and page-specific meta sidebar content with limitless applications.
Custom Field Widget is for WordPress 2.6.x and features:
- Multiple widget instances possible
- Widget-specific optional title and text
- Conditional functionality, i.e., without a matching key, the widget is not displayed
- Practically unlimited possible uses
Use
If you are unfamiliar with custom fields, you should first read about them on the WordPress Codex .
Custom fields are added to posts and pages from the Write > Page and Write > Post menus, just below the main editor area. You may add as many custom fields to a post/page as you like.
There are two separate fields for each custom field: the key and its value . The Custom Field Widget finds a specified key and then displays its corresponding value in the sidebar. Without a matching key , nothing is displayed.
The Custom Field Widget doesn’t necessarily ‘do’ anything, but it enables an advanced (and often overlooked) feature built-in to WordPress. For example, see 28 Ways to Use WordPress Custom Fields for a small picture of possibilities.
I developed this plugin for my own use. I wanted to display a small table of contents for certain pages (which are without categories) in the sidebar dynamically. Without a widget, I would have to edit the sidebar file(s) for each theme I used.
Because each table of contents (a short ol of items) varied from page to page, it also had to be specific to each page. So I created a custom field key of toc and added the ol of items to its value. Enabling the plugin, I had a table of contents appear in the sidebar for each page with a custom field key of toc .
The uses and applications of WordPress custom fields are infinite. Just search for WordPress custom fields for thousands of results on this subject.
License
Custom Field Widget, a plugin for WordPress, (C) 2008 by Scott Allan Wallick, is licensed under the GNU General Public License .
Custom Field Widget is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Custom Field Widget is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty ; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose . See the GNU General Public License for more details.
