ADMIN FORM

Admin form adds a real content management system to your WordPress site, allowing you to create new plugins linked to existing tables or create new ta …

Author:Giulio Pandolfelli (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.9
WordPress version tested:6.5.2
Plugin version:1.9.0
Added to WordPress repository:11-11-2022
Last updated:23-04-2024
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Total downloads:2 028
Active installs:60+
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If you’re a website developer and you need to extend the functionality of WordPress by creating new data structures, this plugin is for you.

Admin Form allows you to create data collections by connecting directly to your WordPress database. With this plugin, you can easily create new data structures or manage and filter existing tables in the database. For instance, you can streamline the process of developing new plugins by automating the entire data entry administration section.

Using shortcodes, you can quickly display HTML tables on your site with search results, column sorting, and page breakdowns. Alternatively, you can design your own HTML and use special shortcodes to input data. Admin Form also includes a complete template engine.

Our comprehensive documentation provides clear and concise instructions on how to use the plugin to its fullest extent. Additionally, the plugin offers flexible customization options, so you can tailor it to your specific needs. Whether you need to manage existing data or create entirely new structures, our plugin can help you accomplish your goals quickly and efficiently.

Key Features

With Admin Form, you can:

  • Create data tables for backend use, including forms with more than 20 data types and an advanced Excel-style search system
  • Choose the fields to display and how to display them
  • Delete selected data or choose to delete all filtered data (PRO version only)
  • Download selected data or all filtered data (PRO version only)
  • Choose the roles of who can edit the table
  • Use LOOKUP field to show data from other tables (PRO version only)
  • Create and edit complex data structures from MySQL queries (PRO version only)
  • Publish data in tables with customizable colors, pagination, and search/sort fields
  • Show details of single records in popups
  • Customize data display using a powerful template engine with attributes, operators, and shortcodes
  • Work with PHP hooks and filters, and use a class with functions to manage data from the code
  • Create custom post types, generating new lists of data and detail pages
  • Add custom fields to post, user, and comment tables, as well as other tables that have a linked “meta” table
  • Enjoy advanced management in table creation with the PRO version
    I- mport and export data in MySQL or CSV format with the PRO version
  • Download the free PRO version at https://github.com/giuliopanda/admin-form-pro/releases/ to access even more features, such as calculated fields and the ability to create query forms.
  • Choose the color, the type of pagination, whether to show the search or the ability to sort the fields.
  • Show the detail of single records in popup.
  • Customize the view through a custom template engine.

We hope you find Admin Form to be a useful tool for your WordPress development needs!

TEMPLATE ENGINE

You have at your disposal a powerful template engine similar to wordpress shortcodes.
You can customize the data display through attributes. For example to make text uppercase:

[%item.Title uppercase]

You can control data flows through the most used operators (if, for, break, while, math…)
For example, to check if a user is logged in you can write:

[^IF [^user]==""] you are not logged in
[^else]  You are logged in [^endif]

Or pull the data directly into a post via the [adfo_tmpl] shortcode

[adfo_tmpl]
<ul>
    [^FOR EACH=[^POST TYPE=post]]
        <li>[%item.title_link]</li>
    [^ENDFOR]
</ul>
[/adfo_tmpl]

PHP

Obviously you have a set of hooks and filters available for working in php, but you also have a class available with a set of functions to manage data from the code. You will find all the documentation inside the plugin.

POST TYPE SUPPORT

Custom post types can be created. These are handled with the plugin’s display and insertion system, thus focusing on data entry rather than content formatting. Using post_types, it is possible to generate not only new lists of data, but also the detail of individual content opened on new pages.

METADATA SUPPORT

For post, user, comment tables and all tables that have a linked “meta” table, Admin Form allows you to add custom fields to the table you are editing.

MULTI ROW FOR POST, USER, MEDIA AND LOOKUP SUPPORT

You can create fields that can save multiple data such as user lists, media or posts.

PRO VERSION

There is also a PRO version that you can download for free!

The pro version adds:
– The calculated fields.
– The lookups fields.
– A system for managing tables through mysql queries
– The ability to create query forms (LAB).
– Advanced management in the creation of tables
– Import and export of data in mysql / csv.

With the pro version you can directly manage the WordPress database by creating queries like on phpmyadmin or adminer.
Some differences are:
– Greater integration with WordPress allows you to avoid accidental changes to WordPress core tables.
– The replace system supports serialized fields
– You can edit the query with the help of a series of dedicated tools
– For each column you have a menu of options inspired by the Excel system
– The ability to edit multiple tables at the same time. in fact, it is possible to edit the fields extracted from the query independently of the tables to which it refers.
For example:

SELECT post.post_title, m01.meta_value AS test, m02.meta_value AS test2 FROM wp_posts` post LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta m01 ON post.ID = m01.post_id AND m01.meta_key = 'test' LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta m02 ON post.ID = m02.post_id AND m02.meta_key = 'test2'

`

Allows you to edit both the test field and the test2 field

the link to the project: https://github.com/giuliopanda/admin-form-pro/releases/

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