Topic: I need some help with a plugin for custom input fields in the backend

Hello everyone...

I'm not too sure if this is too much to ask or not but, I have a question that some of you might just be able to help me with.

I need to be able to define a set of custom input fields in the admin panel of Monstra for page creation. I know that there is a blog plugin that I will be using but I'd like to copy this plugin and create multiple new instances of custom input fields for the creation of a different kind of listing that will act just like the blogging plugin features would allow. I hope that makes sense.

I'll try to elaborate a little more here; I'd need a 'new' section aside a blog that will allow users to create listings much like the blog but with custom input fields, so more than just a title, author and blog content. I have no idea about how I might create the custom fields in a plugin to be used with Monstra, but from what I've been reading on these forums I will need to make a custom plugin, I just can't find enough information as to how I would go about this.

If someone can help give me a basic example or point me towards information that will help me with this, I'd greatly appreciate it, this is mostly for a side project of mine but I really do think that I could make use of Monstra if I could do this, I find it rather intriguing and I'd like to use it for something.


Kind Regards,
Patrick.

Re: I need some help with a plugin for custom input fields in the backend

I'm working on trial and error playing about with the code to try and get something working... If I manage to sort it out I will surely post here, but I've also emailed a more experienced user for some info and advice, so if he manages to help me then I will surely post the findings here and give credit where it's due!

Re: I need some help with a plugin for custom input fields in the backend

I think that I've managed to figure it out now, I'm going to spend some more time working on it and cleaning things up but I have basic functionality so once I'm done I'll share some basic code and likely a write up on how I did it for anyone who may come across this and need the same thing.