[Arizona Lowe]

I admit I was a little disappointed when this installed. I had the expectation that I would be able to build my own forms and adding the custom fields would be a breeze.

Now, I cannot find the developers documentation that you are referring to (a link or something would be nice) and am unsure of how to proceed from here. I need to add two custom fields to the form and I was hoping to be able to be very detailed about what they enter …. character limitations.

Thank you in advance for any help with my custom fields and the documentation.

Arizona

[Steven Zahm]

Yes, Form is designed for a plugin and play setup with very little configuration as possible by the end user. It’s not a form builder.

The dev doc is inline phpDoc. For devs that want to build their own custom fields I refer them to the free extensions which utilize them.

These use builtin supported field types and are fairly simple to implement:

• http://wordpress.org/plugins/connections-business-directory-income-levels/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/connections-business-directory-education-levels/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/connections-business-directory-languages/

This extension uses a custom field type to store and save the business hours. It is a bit more complicated but shows what can be down.

• http://wordpress.org/plugins/connections-business-directory-hours/

Here’s a link to an inline phpDoc example but referring to the actual code in the free extensions should be easier to understand:

• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.1.2/includes/class.metabox-api.php#L17

And here’s a link to the supported field type in the core plugin:

• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.1.2/includes/class.metabox-api.php#L694

If none of those built in field types work for you, you can add a custom field type like it was done in the Business Hours extension.

Hope that helps!

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