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How to use a different Custom Field Value

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How to use a different Custom Field Value

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November 25, 2010
9:22 am

AndyA

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Hey guys

Love the plugin but I am installing it on a site that already has a lot of images attached to each image using the Magic Fields plugin.

All of the existing images have a special custom field value and I was wondering if there was a way I could hack the plugin to read my custom field and use that instead of having to manually enter in the image url for each post.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Andy

November 25, 2010
8:53 pm

Ade

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Hi,

For forwards compatibility with the DCG, the best option is to write some code to transfer (or copy) all your Magic Fields image URLs to the DCG _dfcg-image postmeta field.

Alternatively, you will have to hack the DCG. If you're not using the latest version, upgrade to 3.3.3 (latest). Then find this in dynamic-content-gallery-plugin/includes/dfcg-gallery-core.php (line 513):

function dfcg_postmeta_info() {
global $dfcg_postmeta_upgrade;

if( $dfcg_postmeta_upgrade['upgraded'] == 'completed' ) {
$postmeta['desc'] = '_dfcg-desc';
$postmeta['image'] = '_dfcg-image';
$postmeta['exclude'] = '_dfcg-exclude';
$postmeta['link'] = '_dfcg-link';
$postmeta['link-window'] = '_dfcg-link-window';
} else {
$postmeta['desc'] = 'dfcg-desc';
$postmeta['image'] = 'dfcg-image';
$postmeta['exclude'] = 'dfcg-exclude';
$postmeta['link'] = 'dfcg-link';
}
return $postmeta;
}

You can then replace the DCG custom field keys (eg _dfcg-image) with yours. Obviously, you won't see these URLs in the relevant DCG Metaboxes.

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