Post-to-Post Relationships

Post Relationship Meta Box

One of the most requested features is here: Post Relationships. Using the new Piklist field type, “post-relate”, a new meta box is created that allows you to check off your related posts. Displaying them in your theme is as easy as adding one parameter to your WP_Query arguments, “post_belongs”.  Seriously, if you can customize the Loop, then you can show related posts with Piklist.

Infinite Add-Mores

Add-Mores within an Add-More

“Add-More” fields, or as they are sometimes known as “repeater” fields, have always been incredibly useful…  The ability to group some fields together and make them repeat with a click of a button is pretty awesome. Throw in drag-and-drop sorting and you’ve got something really special. This type of functionality is available in a variety of field systems, including Piklist.

However, Repeater Fields have also been incredibility limiting… the addition of new fields is pretty linear. You have a group of fields… and you can add another group of fields and so on. This works well for many situations, but for others it just doesn’t do a good job.

So, what are Infinite Add-More’s?

Well, with Piklist you can have Add-More’s within Add-More’s within Add-More’s within Add-More’s (do you get the picture). They get saved as one multidimensional array so you can easily loop through it and grab your data.

Since you can include any Piklist field in an Add-More, your options are pretty limitless.

Multiple User Roles

Multiple User Roles

Multi-functional websites could benefit from multiple user roles.  If your website has a Forum and is also handling eCommerce, than a user may be a “Participant” and a “Customer”, which really allows you to handle permissions securely and easily. WordPress core actually supports this, but the WordPress UI does not… until now. Piklist automatically creates and supports multiple user roles.  As a developer you don’t have to do anything special. You can still uses standard WordPress functions like, current_user_can(), to decide whether or not a user can do something.

User Taxonomies

You can now group your users by a custom taxonomy. Just set it up like you would a normal taxonomy through Piklist, and the UI will automatically show up on a users profile page.

WorkFlow

Workflow on a User Profile Page

The current tab system in WordPress is pretty nice, but it’s also limiting (are you starting to see a trend here). Every tab must be for ONE common type (e.g. Settings). Powerful websites deserve a powerful tab system, and Piklist has you covered with “WorkFlow”. The Workflow system in Piklist allows you to create Tabs to any page, from any page. A nice example would be to extend a users Profile page to include information from a Membership plugin.

Thank You for the Support

We know you’ve been waiting for a long time, and we hope you think it’s worth it. Go grab v0.8.0b1 from trunk, install, activate Piklist Demos and post any issues on our support forum.  We’re eager to get Piklist to a stable version so we will be pushing much more frequent updates to trunk.