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Hello Piklist,
Before I try ACF instead 🙂 …
I’ve been reading every bit of the Piklist documentation available, and have watched every video out there, but being the newbie / non-programmer that I am (coming from the graphic design side of web dev), I’m confused. I know Piklist does display the WP way, but even just 2-3 examples of that PHP code would be a HUGE help to get me (and others?) started with using Piklist. There seems to be a strong bias in the documentation towards the backend UI building (which is understandable to a certain extent), but little to nothing on the display code side.
I’ve taught myself the WP_Query class. How does Piklist work with it?
As you continually say, Steve, “Yes, it’s just that easy!” OK. teach this newbie how easy it is to display a few standard fields, and a few groups of repeaters, one of which has a conditional display on the other.
Thanks in advance,
Matt D -
@davisdp– Welcome to the Piklist community!
If I’m reading your post correctly, you understand admin forms, but not front end forms:
-The current version of Piklist is really for building fields in the WordPress admin. The next version of Piklist will make frontend forms possible… and as easy as the backend ones.If I’m wrong, and you want to learn about backend forms:
-Read our Getting Started post. If you don’t understand something on the post, or you think we can explain something better, please let us know.
-Check out the Piklist built-in Demos. You can easily use this code in your own project.To use WP_Query to retrieve data:
-Piklist stores everything the standard WordPress way. In “most” cases the fields you create will be storing “meta”: post_meta, user_meta and term_meta. You can use the WP_Query meta query to find the right posts to display.
-To display your data you will probably use functions like get_post_meta. This post explains how to display data (towards the end of the post)Please feel free to post as many questions as you want. We strive to provide the best support for any plugin.
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Thanks for the timely response, Steve. You do provide outstanding support (refreshingly surprising for a free product 🙂 !).
You answered my question in the 2nd half of your response. I’ll take some time to review the Piklist demo code examples. I’m certain the lightbulb will illuminate then.
Since i have your ear, I know Piklist is free, and… I know you’re working hard on a release of v1.0 of the Framework, Toolbox and Fields & Forms, but… at WorldCamp NYC you stated (to a audience question) that Fields & Forms was 99.9% done. That was almost a year ago, to the week. Do you have a public roadmap for the release of the v1.0 products? I ask knowing that most dev’s hate the question and rarely commit to hard targets. But when an agency elects to adopt a framework, it needs to know that all is well and stable with it, and that its roadmap is at least slightly clear. If you don’t care to answer, no worries.
Also, I did submit for the beta of Fields & Forms and Toolbox — not sure if it reached you or not, as every time I hit the product pages, it asks me to accept the terms and submit my email again.
Thanks again for your assistance, and for creating Piklist. It should be part of the WP Codex!
Matt
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@davisdp– While building Fields and Forms we released that Piklist itself needed some work. We decided to work on getting Piklist as stable as possible so we would have a good foundation to build on.
We don’t have a public roadmap, but you be assured that we work on Piklist everyday and are getting closer to the next release.
I hope that answers you question.
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