This was an amazing and inspiring session with Marc Dechèvre about Joomla Custom Fields.
As you will probably notice, there were some technical issues at the very beginning of the stream but those have been edited out. A consequence of that is the live chat will not appear in YouTube as the video is playing. I have pasted the full chat below for context here.
For your convenience, I have also collected together most of the urls share by different people in that chat here
Links and code shared by Marc in the video or others in chat (not necessarily in order):
Marc's core slides for this presentation
https://slides.woluweb.be/jd18nl/cf.reveal#/custom-fields-how-far-can-you-go
Marc's article in Joomla Magazine:
https://magazine.joomla.org/item/3326-how-far-can-we-go-with-joomla-and-custom-fields
Custom Fields - Use Them to Their Potential - Geraint Edwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E42luS2C_tA
JAB17 - Joomla 3.7 Custom Fields - Using Them to Their Full Potential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_EhniR6FE4&list=PL0Lg2fzcJu1TqH4iC8sfZby_0F02Ib56p
Some Cool, Free Custom Plugins
https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/advanced-custom-fields/
Clear My Cache
https://clear-my-cache.com/
JLContents Field Editor
https://joomline.org/extensions/modules-for-joomla/jlcontentfieldsfilter.html
Override Examples From Green Dog
https://www.greendog.fr/experimentations
Override Examples From Daniel Dubois
https://www.web-eau.net/developpement/joomla-overrides
Marc's CSS code for making the Field Tabs a different colour:
#com-content-formTabs a[href*="field"] { background: #FA8236 !important; color: white !important; }
#com-content-formTabs .active>a[href*="field"] { background: orange !important; color: white !important; }
A Chrome Plugin for testing CSS styling:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-editor-for-css-less/ifhikkcafabcgolfjegfcgloomalapol
Tweat this to the creator and donator of Custom Fields
Thank You @laoneo for #Joomla #CustomFields !
Custom Fields Extensins in the JED
https://extensions.joomla.org/category/authoring-a-content/custom-fields/
Cinnk Magazine Custom Fields resource links:
https://cinnk.com/magazine/juillet-2017/960-custom-fields-bonus
This is the transcript of the chat on YouTube during this stream:
Alison Meeks
Tap tap tap 😉
Woluweb
I'm there ! Just waiting for Tim :D
Alison Meeks
Hey hi Marc!
Vinny Hébert
He's probably getting his cheese.
webiedesign
11 people waiting - this is a record I think
Alison Meeks
Fields for non-coders Hell yes!
Vinny Hébert
Love me some custom fields.
Woluweb
Does anyone have Tim's phone number to wake him up ? :D
Alison Meeks
I have seen samples and think ok that can be done with styling. I'm hoping this turns the light on for me on this magic.
Vinny Hébert
I haven't done a site lately that doesn't have custom fields.
Woluweb
Tim's there ! We start in a moment
CreativeWhirl
11 people waiting. Wowza Tim!
Alison Meeks
I've never used them. Saw Elisa's presentation at JDay Florida but lost the thread at PHP.
Brian Rønnow
Hi there
Alison Meeks
Hey Brian
Vinny Hébert
EasyLayouts makes it easy to use them @Alison Meeks
Basic Joomla Tutorials
Hey everyone! Almost - after all, it's still morning here!
Vinny Hébert
I just wish the repeatable fields had more functionality.
Brian Rønnow
Hey Alison
Alison Meeks
Cool! I don't use page builders so have never loaded EasyLayouts.
Alison Meeks
Thanks Vinny
Vinny Hébert
I didn't either before EasyLayouts. But it uses Joomla's Template Override system with a GUI
Alison Meeks
Who makes EasyLayouts?
Alison Meeks
Is it the guys over at Stack?
AbMano - marketing- og websupport
Hurray!
Welcome to live chat! Remember to guard your privacy and abide by our community guidelines.
webiedesign
the Jevents people Alison, if you have a gold membership at JEvents there is a coupon
CreativeWhirl
Geraint Edwards I think.
Vinny Hébert
Thank you Mary.
Vinny Hébert
Lots of echo
CreativeWhirl
yup, echo a prob
Vinny Hébert
ECHO
Vinny Hébert
ECHO
Vinny Hébert
ECHO
John Moelholt
I cant hear you Vinny due to all the echo
Alison Meeks
lol
Vinny Hébert
TIM LOOK AT THE CHAT
Basic Joomla Tutorials
I see.
Vinny Hébert
It hasn't stopped.
Brian Rønnow
its still there
Vinny Hébert
It's not from my computer.
CreativeWhirl
it's actually getting worse (more iterations of echo)
Vinny Hébert
It's because Tim used the wrong flag
CreativeWhirl
haha Vinny
Alison Meeks
lol
Vinny Hébert
Take 3
Vinny Hébert
But don't Belgium's hate being mistaken from people from France?
Alison Meeks
Not touching that one
Vinny Hébert
Usually those jokes are made at the expensive of us Americans. Kind of nice to see a Canadian getting heckled about knowing where countries are.
Alison Meeks
I was going to say after what Quebec has done to the French language Tim has no worries.
Basic Joomla Tutorials
https://slides.woluweb.be
Vinny Hébert
https://magazine.joomla.org/item/3326...
Alison Meeks
Nothing wrong with Skwerls
CreativeWhirl
2 vids on Joomla channel's playlist: Custom Fields - Use Them to Their Potential - Geraint Edwards; JAB17 - Joomla 3.7 Custom Fields - Using Them to Their Full Potential
CreativeWhirl
(I hadn't watched in full) on Custom Fields, in tandem with Easy Layouts, from Geraint Edwards): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E42lu...
CreativeWhirl
JAB17 - Joomla 3.7 Custom Fields - Using Them to Their Full Potential; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Ehn...
Vinny Hébert
I want to use Regularlabs Article Field repeatable!
Vinny Hébert
That's Article Field 😃
Vinny Hébert
You would add in the article but you got to make sure that the formatting is not rendered or it it will breaking your link
Vinny Hébert
@Basic Joomla Tutorials Tassos Marinos (engagebox) has a custom field for Youtube
Basic Joomla Tutorials
Thanks Vinny.
Vinny Hébert
I'm a bit ahead of Marc 😃
CreativeWhirl
Vinny's mindreading again
Vinny Hébert
I tell you. I've really been gung-ho about custom fields
CreativeWhirl
(oh man, the lag between realtime & when I hear/see the vid is significant) [just realized that by also watching on my phone). 😞
Vinny Hébert
I'm not having the same problem
Vinny Hébert
Try refreshing
CreativeWhirl
i think it might be related to slow connectivity
CreativeWhirl
it corrected itself. Thx Vinny
Alison Meeks
OK here
Rick Spaan
Hi everyone
Vinny Hébert
Hello Rick
Vinny Hébert
Custom Fields have allowed some of my clients to add content to their website and keep the same formatting.
Alison Meeks
nice
Rick Spaan
Hey @Alison Meeks nice to see you here!
Alison Meeks
Hi Rick 😃
Vinny Hébert
Look. Still using FontAwesome 4
Rick Spaan
Just to plug some cool free custom field plugins: https://extensions.joomla.org/extensi...
Vinny Hébert
is the "value" just displaying the value without formatting.
Vinny Hébert
Thank you
webiedesign
the free plugins look nice, I also found that I had a pdf file upload field included with my JCE Pro subscription
Vinny Hébert
RegularLabs Articles Anywhere
Vinny Hébert
Pro Version allows for multiple articles
Rick Spaan
With long lists Articles Anywhere can be memory intensive. Especially when nesting...
Vinny Hébert
@Rick Spaan any call to lots of data can be.
Rick Spaan
@Vinny Hébert very true
Alison Meeks
I was sitting thinking a VOD site I did several years ago would have benefited from these
CreativeWhirl
i can't believe the amount of mickey mouse editing I've done instead of knowing to use these extensions. Man oh man. The prezi is perfect timing, thank you Marc&Tim. (working on a book database.)
Vinny Hébert
@CreativeWhirl Oh yes! Perfect for a book database. Also take a look at Artciles Field from RegularLabs that will help with you.
Vinny Hébert
It's a great way to link articles together and then you can generate a list of articles linked to the main page. For example
Vinny Hébert
You can have an author page and a book page. The book page links to the author page (so if you click on it it will go to the author). Then on the author page
CreativeWhirl
I definitely will Vinny, been recording your comments. High time I signed up for Peter's extensions. (also doing a recipe/dietician/chef etc database so, again, very useful tools here)
Vinny Hébert
It will generate a list of books.
Vinny Hébert
on that author page automatically. And everytime you add a new book for that author, it will add to the list for you.
Alison Meeks
But K2 etc takes content out of com_content
Vinny Hébert
@Alison Meeks exactly. Once custom fields came out, it made K2, at least for me, pointless
Alison Meeks
(it was before that for me 😉
CreativeWhirl
I have (for past 6 years) been a heavy user of Tags and Contacts--could never achieve what I really wanted to do.
Vinny Hébert
I liked how K2 layed out articles. More control then Joomla's category layouts
Vinny Hébert
But now I use Articles Anywhere which give me more control. (until I really learn template overrides).
Alison Meeks
I heavily used tags for the VOD I built.
Vinny Hébert
I too was useing tags a lot, but I find that end users don't use tags sometimes and that messes things up.
webiedesign
I would use tags more if their was an easy layouts for tag layouts
Vinny Hébert
Yeah. Me too Mary.
Basic Joomla Tutorials
One of the first layout overrides I want to do is add "read more" to tags layout page.
Brian Rønnow
Me too. tags is not my best friend
Vinny Hébert
@Basic Joomla Tutorials the overlay on the images could be done with UiKit.
webiedesign
I wrote an tag override once- I'll have to find it and share
Basic Joomla Tutorials
https://clear-my-cache.com
Brian Rønnow
What was the name of the site with filters ?
Basic Joomla Tutorials
https://joomline.org
Vinny Hébert
That sounds like Tim
Basic Joomla Tutorials
https://greendog.fr
Alison Meeks
ok
Rick Spaan
Some more overrides: https://www.web-eau.net/developpement...
Alison Meeks
rights revoked 😉
Christophe Avonture
Good evening everybody; bonsoir Marc.
Alison Meeks
Hi Christophe
Brian Rønnow
Hi Christophe
CreativeWhirl
Nice to see new people in today's session. Valery here 😃
Alison Meeks
so cool
CreativeWhirl
agreed, very cool
Brian Rønnow
Yes please Marc, that would be great
Alison Meeks
tag the video time
Marc Dechèvre
#com-content-formTabs a[href*="field"] { background: #FA8236 !important; color: white !important; }
Marc Dechèvre
#com-content-formTabs .active>a[href*="field"] { background: orange !important; color: white !important; }
Rick Spaan
CSS grid rocks!!!
Alison Meeks
J4 front end was to be in it
John Moelholt
@Alison Meeks - was, is it not going to be?
Alison Meeks
I don't know John - I know there have been lots of "discussions" on so many things since I heard that.
John Moelholt
ah ok
Alison Meeks
I do hope it is still. I'm looking forward to learning and working in it.
John Moelholt
i so hope also ... grid is impossible powerful, specially with different output devices
Alison Meeks
that is what I have heard also
Rick Spaan
If you want to test CSS styling there is a nice Chrome plugin for that (also LESS SASS) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de...
Bardin Christian
👍
Brian Rønnow
Thanks Rick
Rick Spaan
@Brian Rønnow SASS also works like a dream
Brian Rønnow
okay i will test it more later
Marc Dechèvre
Thank You @laoneo for #Joomla #CustomFields !
Alison Meeks
wow
Brian Rønnow
wow.. thats alot
Rick Spaan
Thanks Marc! Really great!
Alison Meeks
My brain is goo. Thank you so much Marc and Tim!
Marc Dechèvre
My pleasure !
Bardin Christian
great Marc !
Basic Joomla Tutorials
https://zoom.us/j/132101463
Brian Rønnow
Think i have to replay this.. there was so much information
Alison Meeks
Exactly Brian
Brian Rønnow
I thought Custom fields was just simple adding of text and other small stoff
Rick Spaan
Have to go! Great presentation Marc! Hope to see you soon!
CreativeWhirl
Terrific presentation, thank you very much for doing this! (sadly don't think I can join next week's stream). I will be replaying this one more than once. Sooo much to learn.
Alison Meeks
The interaction and functionality
Vinny Hébert
That's how custom fields were like in k2
Alison Meeks
It changes how I think about building sites that a client would edit vs myself.
Vinny Hébert
@Alison Meeks it really has opened my eyes.
Alison Meeks
Most of my sites I build for clients I also do the updates. This makes it so much easier for a site with client updating.
Vinny Hébert
Exactly
Christophe Avonture
Thanks Marc
Christophe Avonture
Good bye everybody
Bardin Christian
bye Joomla people
Vinny Hébert
It really makes it easy for non-tech people to be able to add information to a website without having to know the code for the layout.
Alison Meeks
Take care 😃
Brian Rønnow
Looking forward to go deeper into the overrides with Costum Fields
AbMano - marketing- og websupport
Good night from Denmark.
Brian Rønnow
See you next week
Alison Meeks
lol
Vinny Hébert
Bye everyone
Brian Rønnow
Bye
Basic Joomla Tutorials
Thanks everyone!
