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using a existing custom field for images

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March 3, 2011
5:07 pm

tripletrouble

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Hello,

I was using featured content gallery (FCG) before and since it is conflicting with other plugins I want to use DCG now.
since I have a lot of posts which already using WP custom field as this: "articleimg"/"theImageURL.ext" I wonder, how I could use this existing one in DCG now.
I don't want to go to each post and copy/paste the URL in the DCG sideboard.
Is there a way to accomplish that?
I have seen one post here in the forum which I don't understand or if it would help in my case:
here it is
and here is the answer which was postet from Ade:

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;
}

If this is right for my problem, where must I change what?
Thank you very much
Tom

March 3, 2011
5:35 pm

tripletrouble

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OK, sorry dumb me.

I solved it – just for others:
replace _dfcg-image and dfcg-image with the custom field name and it works
repeat with the other fields if tey already there.
after plugin update, that has to be repeated as well.

But I have to say, it was worth the effort because FCG is really conflicting with many other plugins.
With DCG this can be resolved using the jquery as java script options because mith mootools it is just the same.
In my case the trouble was because I needed also the Magic Gallery Plugin

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Tom

March 4, 2011
10:58 am

Ade

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Glad it worked for you, Tom. Don't forget that this modification will be overwritten next time you upgrade the plugin – so keep a note somewhere of your changes.

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