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** Very Important Information about the new v1.1 ACF Update
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Dear ACF users
The last 2 weeks have been quite exiting: The ACF plugin has been a real success, I've had lots of great feedback and I've already made a lot of improvements (not to mention almost doubling the amount of field types!)
This brings me to an important anouncement.
I am currently working on and will soon be releasing v1.1 of the ACF plugin. This update will no longer use wp custom fields to read and save data, instead I have created new tables in the wp database!
This means:
- faster load times!
- more flexibility for future updates
- keeps field data sepperate from wp data
- ability to easily import / export
- the list could go on
So why am I making a big fuss?
Well, the v1.1 update needs to create these tables and (to keep you all happy) also copy across your data to the new system.
I will write an update script which will copy your ACF data across to the system but PLEASE BACKUP BEFORE YOU UPDATE!!!
I cannot make any guarantees that your data will remain exactly the same through the update process but I will try very hard to make sure it does.
Basically, make sure you back up before the update.
Thanks for all the support, I've got some really cool new features in this update and my plans for the future are very exiting!
Cheers
Elliot -
hi Elliot thanks for a great plugin. I have installed V1.1 but it has not copied my data over. Do you have the update script which should copy the data across?
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Nice improvements. Great job.
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man i really wish I read this before seeing the auto-update. my data was not copied over. Luckily im on a dev server still. hope this is an easy fix for future updates. no harm no foul.
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shoot. so i just logged in and noticed that in addition to not transferring the info over, the plugin is pretty much not working for me at all. It will not save the information after publishing and once I do publish it will no allow me to add fields. Anyone else having problems?
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Mine did copy the content over in the DB but anywhere i have used the wiswig editor I am having problems with links " etc. It is now putting ( \" ) around them all. Is this something to do with the way the DB is setup? Any help would be great. Thanks
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I was able to reactivate my data simply by republishing the pages/posts
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From what i can see if you put a speech mark " into any of the fields it puts a back slashes in before the speech mark. That's something to do with the may it puts the code into the DB isn't it?
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Elliot,
Thank you for this great plugin. This should become a wordpress standard thing, considering it as a decent CMS (together with custom field matrix and CMS press)!
However, after automatic updating, my data did not update properly into the new DB tables. What are we expected to do if this doesn't happen automatically? Any suggestions, besides editing everything all over again?
ps: tip for people who run into trouble while auto-updating: Delete the plugin folder manually and upload the previous version. Then it should work again like before.
If not, uploading the database backup via mySQL seems like the only option.
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I have some concerns about the 1.1 update (aside from the fact that it broke my existing site and I had to roll back to the previous version): Using WordPress' built-in Custom Fields support is an important feature, because it means that Search plugins that search Custom Fields automatically find posts using ACF data, and WordPress' built-in WXR export/import features automatically backup/restore all ACF data. There may be other implications, too -- it's not just a question of providing us with a script to convert existing Custom Fields to whatever your new format is.
Improving performance is always welcome, but I'm concerned that that will come at a rather high compatibility cost. The whole reason I selected this plugin was because, as it name implies, it uses Custom Fields. Other than the fact that ACF prefixes all Custom Fields with "_acf_", its use of Custom Fields is fairly transparent. It seems to be heading in a more opaque direction.
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@jeffpar, @Elliot,
Couldn't agree more. The plugin is amazing already, we do not want to loose it because of incompatibility in the future. Maybe you should contact the core designers of wordpress discussing the matter to keep things compatibel for future reference...
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Hey guys
Thanks for the feedback and for keeping a cool head when your data got lost.
Firstly: if your data didnt copy across to the new system, deactivate and re activate the plugin. This will force the update script to run (you may need to delete a row from the wp_options table: acf_version)
Seccondly: i'll work on an update to fix the wysiwyg slash issues and get it out by the end of today
Thirdly: i realy think this is the way forward. To introduce a matrix field type i had to move over to a database data system so i can create complex relations
Fourthly: the update script is in core/update.php
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Hey Guys
Had a quick look at work and It's a simple fix. Just to do with special character encoding and escaping quotes / slashes / etc..
Will have a fix tonight! -
P.S. your data is fine, its just the reading of the data needs to be changed
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Ref: Had a quick look at work and It's a simple fix. Just to do with special character encoding and escaping quotes / slashes / etc..
Thought it was something like that. Thanks for getting on to the fix so quickly. Cheers, Ben -
New update released (v1.1.1) to fix slashes from appearing in edit screen inputs.
Enjoy -
Hi, i have installed the updated version and it has fixed the slashes but tags like [caption] are not passing properly?
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Also it now strips the
tags out of any copy?
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SORRY: you can see it now, Also it now strips the < paragraph > tags out of any copy?
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hey guys, Thanks for the feedback, I need you to be very specific with your problems here. Please not the field type and the exact problem.
Cheers -
First off Elliot, thank you for this great plugin! It really helps turn Wordpress into a true CMS. When updating to v1.1.1 it didn't copy my data over so I tried what you suggested;
deactivated and then re-activated the plugin and deleted the acf_version row from the wp_options table.
This only copied over some of my data, is there anything else I can try without manually re-entering the data into the fields? I have rolled back to a backup so for now I'm ok using the previous version.
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Hi the problems I am having are both with the Wysiwyg editor.
*if you use the Word press [caption] tag it displays properly in the editor but on viewing the site you will see something like this [caption id="attachment_594" align="alignnone" width="252" caption="text"] [/caption]
*If I use a standard < p tag > also in the Wysiwyg it views correctly in the editor but does not display the tag at all on the site.
Thanks for looking into this, Ben
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Upgrading the plugin has caused me a lot of problems. I am also having exactly the same problem which has been mentioned at http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/discussion/comment/210#Comment_210
It doesn't save any of the info when I publish the field. After publishing, it doesn't allow me to add new fields. The "Add Field" button just doesn't respond.
Spent a lot of time to fix the issue without any success. Rolled back to 1.0.5 and everything started working fine. -
I want to continue using Advanced Custom Fields, so the question becomes: how do I enable Search of ACF data (which worked before v1.1), and how do I enable WXR import/export of all my data -- including ACF data (which also worked before v1.1)? Thanks.
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Hi will it support multisite?
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Hi Elliot,
Sorry to pester just wondered how you were getting on with the wordpress and paragraph tag issue. This is the first site I have built a site using word press; I liked the plugin so much I have built the entire site with it!
Many thanks Ben -
Hey guys. I've just moved house an am currently Internet less. I've been using tethered iPhone but now that's all been used up. Haha, what a situation!
I may not be able to work on the plugin for a day or 2 so please bear with me.
For now can u take some screenshots for me?
1. the edit screen
2. the edit screen wysiwyg code (firebug preferably but source code is also good)
3. The row in your wp_acc_values table where the wysiwyg field value is.
4. The code that gets displayed by the the_field() function when displaying the wysiwyg value
That will help me to fix it asap.
Thanks -
Hi Elliot,
Please see the screen grabs attached. Let me know if you need anything else. Many thanks, Ben
output.gif292 x 534 - 57K
ACF_edit.gif792 x 310 - 14K
code_in_page_edit.gif756 x 301 - 12K
page_edit_view.gif773 x 403 - 44K
table.gif674 x 394 - 18K -
@jeffpar, @Elliot, @vanhalstd,
+1. it would be MUCH preferred to keep in line with wordpress and not create new tables... wish i had known this earlier :( -
Agreed. I'm still not clear on how I'm supposed to get any CF-aware Search plugins working with the new ACF format, or how I can get all my ACF data exported using the WXR export function. Both of those features worked when actual "Custom Fields" were being used. This doesn't seem to be a "Custom Fields" plugin anymore.
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After installing the plugin, my homepage is getting redirected to /acf/ something....so I am not able to see my hompage. Even after removing the plugin I get the same error...help me
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Hey guys
I can see you are not happy with my choice to use custom tables. Believe me, I did it for a good reason.
@winday. Have you tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin to force the update script to run?
This plugin started out as a small project and has now grown very quickly into a very powerful feature packed must have for every web developer. There was just no way I could run all the data from the normal custom field table. It just wasn't possible. If you want to complain, feel free to use the simple fields or more fields plugins.
Thanks.
Elliot
