Overview

How are things connected under the hood?

Fields, Field Groups and Post Connectors are the fundamentals of Simple Fields

Simple Fields consists of of fields, field groups and post connectors.

Field Group

• Have an ID, a name, and a description
• have fields
• can be repeatable
• is a group of fields that belong together
• uses a post connector to connect the field group to a post

Field groups can be used for multiple post connectors, so you can have a large combination of fields for your post, but still you only have to set up a field group once.

Field

• are of different types: file, text, date, color, and so on
• have id, name, description and a slug
• may have options, for example radiobutton and dropdown have options
• are what will show up on your post edit screen
• are added to/will belong to a field group
• is always connector to one (and only one) field group.

Post connector

• is a collection of field groups
• is what you finally attach/assisgn to a post to make all fields available to that post
• have a name and an ID
• have field groups attached/connecte
• connects to post_types
• a post type can have a specific post connector as default

Post type defaults

Lagras som meta keys simple_fields_fieldGroupID%

När man redigerar a post type the boxes are fetched like this:

simple_fields_meta_box_output skriver ut en fältgrupp simple_fields_meta_box_output_one_field_group() körs för varje fält som ska skrivas ut