A toolkit for the Magic Fields 2 plugin for media oriented CMS web design by non programmers.

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<p><strong>This plugin is no longer being actively developed. This means no new features will be added to this plugin.<br />
Moreover, I no longer use this plugin and will not know of a problem unless a user reports it.<br />
However, I remain absolutely committed to maintaining the existing feature set of this plugin and if a problem is reported I will do my very best to fix it.<br />
You can report problems using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/magic-fields-2-toolkit" rel="ugc">support page of this plugin</a>.</strong></p>
<p>This <a href="https://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">toolkit</a> transforms the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-fields-2/" rel="ugc">Magic Fields 2</a> plugin into something that can be used by a non programmer to do media oriented CMS web design.<br />
With this toolkit you can design your page content using only HTML, CSS and the <a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">toolkit’s shortcodes</a>.<br />
Using the <a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#macros" rel="nofollow ugc">toolkit’s content templates</a> you can define a reusable template for page contents which can be used to create multiple pages using the page’s custom fields to instantiate the template.<br />
This toolkit also simplifies the use of media (images, audio, video and embeds) by providing <a href="https://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#alt_media" rel="nofollow ugc">configurable shortcodes</a> for generating responsive HTML wrappers for these media elements.</p>
<p>The current features are:</p>
<h4>Support for coding HTML templates without the need for PHP programming</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcode for showing Magic Fields 2 custom fields and taxonomies</a>. In particular, the shortcodes makes it easy to display a table of custom field names and their values.</li>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#macros" rel="nofollow ugc">post content templates for HTML and WordPress shortcodes</a> – these templates do not need PHP code.</li>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#gallery" rel="nofollow ugc">gallery shortcode for showing Magic Fields Media Library images</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#tabs" rel="nofollow ugc">tabs shortcode for showing mt_template shortcodes in jQuery UI Tabs</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Additional custom fields</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#alt_media" rel="nofollow ugc">fields for WordPress’s video and audio shortcodes</a>.</li>
<li>An <a href="https://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#alt_image" rel="nofollow ugc">enhanced image field</a> that supports a custom click URL and a mouseover popup.</li>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#alt_related" rel="nofollow ugc">alternative related type field</a> which uses multiple selection checkboxes instead of a single selection dropdown.</li>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#alt_numeric" rel="nofollow ugc">numeric field</a> with support for measurement units suffix and/or currency symbol prefix.</li>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#alt_url" rel="nofollow ugc">URL field</a> contains the data for a HTML <a> element.</li>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#alt_table" rel="nofollow ugc">pseudo field for generating a table of Magic Field names and values</a>.</li>
<li>field for WordPress’s embed shortcode.</li>
<li>alternative textbox field that allows you to select previously entered data.</li>
<li>alternative dropdown field that allows you to enter new options directly into the dropdown.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Search widget</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-search-0-4-1/" rel="nofollow ugc">finds posts by Magic Fields 2 field values.</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Miscellaneous enhancements to Magic Fields 2</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/#copy" rel="nofollow ugc">Create a copy of a Magic Fields 2 custom post</a> copying all of the Magic Fields’ custom fields, groups and taxonomies.</li>
<li>Identify and delete unreferenced files in folder files_mf.</li>
<li>Provides an alternative get_audio function that outputs HTML5 audio elements for iPad and iPhone browsers.</li>
<li>Provides some Magic Fields 2 utility functions for PHP programmers.</li>
</ul>
<p>Please visit the <a href="http://magicfields17.wordpress.com/magic-fields-2-toolkit-0-4-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">Toolkit’s online documentation</a> for more details.<br />
<strong>This plugin works with Magic Fields 2.3 and requires at least PHP 5.4.</strong></p>


Magic Fields 2 Toolkit

The home page of this plugin is hosted at wordpress.com. Some time after Aug 23, 2015 wordpress.com changed the post processing that it applies to sanitize the HTML before saving. The new algorithm began ignoring some of my HTML escape characters and saving escaped HTML as valid HTML. This has broken many of my examples which by necessity contain HTML. I cannot even restore to an earlier good version since the new post processing is still applied and again ignores the same HTML escape characters and re-mangles the earlier good version into the same mess. For the present it seems it is impossible to restore that site. If you need any help at all please contact me at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/magic-fields-2-toolkit. I absolutely respond to every request in reasonable time so it will not be a waste of your time. 
Since, I only have access to the mangled good earlier versions it seems the whole site may need to be rewritten and moved to another web host. As this plugin only has 30+ users according to wordpress.org I think it is easier to support those users individually than to rewrite and move this entire site. Of course this means I will have to stop development of this plugin as there will be no way to document new features but there were only a small number of additional features I had planned anyway.



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