The more plugins are installed, the more Custom Field Metas are being registered. They are not ordered by title, and it is hard to go through them in order to pinpoint the Custom Meta that looks like the one we need. This is often an experimenting job.
A Search box would make this process much easier.
Thanks!
Makes sense. I’ll need to move this one to our overflow list since it’s not a quick fix to get in. It used to be smarter and only show the fields of the page you were on, but I had to remove that enumeration because of changes we made to get loopers working. We’ll look into making it easier to work with.
Hi @Misho,
Wanted to post a quick update here. For Pro 4.2 I’ve rewritten all the field enumeration. I’m finally able to observe the post ID in scope for the inspected elements. So if you’re working on a text element inside a post looper, you will see fields available on that post. It will also preview the content of those fields so you know what it looks like before clicking.
We still don’t have searching, but this will be a huge improvement over how it’s been since the 4.0 release. We might come back to searching but first I want to rewrite our custom select implementation. The control you see used for things like the preview manager and element conditions is based on a library called React Select and it has been an uphill battle for us to customize. We intend on making our own select component at some point. Once we have that we’ll have more flexibility to bring searching to other parts of the tool like dynamic content fields.