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09/01/2015 04:30:06 AM (11 years ago)
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VisualData
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update readme.txt

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    1 === CIO Custom Fields for Woo Customers  ===
     1=== CIO Custom Fields and Groups  ===
    22Contributors: VisualData
    33Donate link: http://vipp.com.au/cio-custom-fields-importer
    4 Tags: pods custom fields group, WooCommerce, custom fields, custom fields registration, custom fields checkout, custom fields user profile, frontend edit user profile
     4Tags: pods custom fields group, WooCommerce customers, WooCommerce products, custom fields, custom fields registration, custom fields checkout, custom fields user profile, frontend edit user profile, custom field groups, headers, footers, sections, pods group
    55License: GPLv2
    66License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
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    99Stable tag: 1.0.0
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    11 No coding required. This plugin adds unlimited custom fields to WooCommerce customer registration, checkout, user profile and edit account pages.
     11Copy, drag, drop, done. CIO extends PODS to add unlimited fields, groups*, forms to WooCommerce customers, products, orders, or content types by PODS.
    1212
    1313== Description ==
    1414
    15 If you run a website using WooCommerce, sometime you or your clients may hope to collect extra information about customers to provide better personalised service. The extra information is usually stored as custom fields.
     15Looking for a better way to collect and present data on your website?
    1616
    17 This is not just another plugin for WooCommerce. This is THE plugin to customise WooCommerce customer registration, checkout, user profile and edit account pages, without writing a single line of code.
     17Looking for a simple and easy solution to organize your custom fields into groups?
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    19 The plugin adds WooCommerce's builtin billing and shipping fields and an additional field (mobile phone) to the customer pages. You can easily change the sequence, add or delete fields by dragging and dropping.
     19No PHP code required, CIO Custom Fields and Groups is the solution you are looking for. You just copy, drag and drop, and it is done, intuitively.  Group headers and footers are displayed in different colors in configuration page so you can recognize them within seconds.
     20
     21Changing the group definition is easy. You drag the custom fields and drop to the new position without leaving the page. Redefining groups can be done within seconds.
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     23You may add group header, footer and help texts or images, illustrations, and display the custom fields by group in a form, on a page or post using short codes.  You can set display conditions. The custom fields groups will only display when the conditions are met, similar to location rules in Advanced Custom Fields, without the hassles. 
     24
     25Even better, you can create sub-groups within groups or combine fields from different groups, using the same "copy, drag and drop" approach. For example, you may group custom fields under men's fashion and women's fashion, and then divide the custom fields into sub-groups by age.
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     27You can do as little or as much customisation with the groups. The choices are yours.
     28
     29CIO Custom Fields and Groups is an add-on to PODS but can be used to group custom fields created with other plugins. This is achieved by sharing the stored data between your plugin and PODS, thanks to the great work of PODS team.
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     32* Custom fields groups and some features are enabled in [CIO Custom Fields and Groups Professional Edition](http://vipp.com.au/cio-custom-fields-importer) only.
     33
     34PS: I am releasing the professional edition to the public to raise fund for a long time friend who runs a charity from Australia called [Captivating](http://captivating.org/). Captivating helps victimised children in developing countries with a dedicated team. CIO Custom Fields and Groups Professional Edition is bundled with extra features and is freely available to supporters of Captivating. If you are willing and able financially, please consider giving to Captivating. Any amount is appreciated.
     35
     36[CIO Custom Fields and Groups Professional Edition](http://vipp.com.au/cio-custom-fields-importer) is also available for immediate download for a small once-off fee.
     37
     38-How does it work-
     39
     40We believe things should be as simple and easy as it could be. CIO Custom Fields and Groups defines groups by the position of custom fields relevant to a group header, in the same way as groups are displayed in forms or on paper. Fields beneath a group header belongs to this group. Similarly, fields above the group footer belongs to the group.  You can use either headers or footers, or both to define groups.
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     43CIO Custom Fields and Groups professional edition hooks into Pods core files so you can use PODS short code to display a form by specifying header or footer names.
     44
     45`[pods name="mypod" id="321" headers="0, myheader1, myheader2, 0" footers="myfooter1, myfooter2, 0" form="true"]`
     46
     47Grouping is optional with CIO Custom Fields and Groups. If some fields are grouped and some are not, you can access these ungrouped fields by using a dummy header or footer name "0" (zero), as shown in the example above.
     48
     49Note headers and footers are used in the short code instead of groups. This is to avoid confusion with the "group" functionality under development and testing by pods team.
     50
     51CIO Custom Fields and Groups professional edition filters the parameters in the short code, identifies the fields in the group, and passes the field names to PODS to generate a form.
     52
     53Similarly, CIO Custom Fields and Groups professional edition hooks into Pods to display a header and footer label only without an input cell.
     54
     55CIO Custom Fields and Groups uses builtin table structures of WordPress and PODS to define groups. No extra taxonomy or data is created.
     56
     57Please see screen shots for more examples.
     58
     59
     60-What are custom fields-
     61
     62If you run an e-commerce website such as WooCommerce, you or your clients may hope to collect extra information about customers to provide better personalised service. This is especially the case for consulting and match making business as your solutions are often tailor made to suit customers. You may also want to provide extra attributes about your products and services. The extra information is usually stored as custom fields.
     63
     64Of the plugins available, [PODS](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/) is a powerful and flexible tool to manage content types and custom fields. It can be used to create truly amazing and high performing content management system that will grow as your business grows. One of the distinct features of PODS is that it can extend builtin content types, or custom posts created with other plugins. Data can be shared between PODS and other plugins as illustrated in this plugin as long as it is stored properly.
     65
     66CIO Custom Fields and Groups makes PODS even more powerful and flexible. It extends PODS to organize custom fields into groups by headers or footers, intuitively. This is THE plugin to customise WooCommerce customer registration, checkout, user profile and edit account pages, without writing a single line of code. The professional version allows you to group custom fields of other content types including PODS advanced content type into sections.
     67
     68The plugin adds WooCommerce's builtin billing and shipping fields and an additional field (mobile phone) to the customer pages. You can easily change the sequence, add or delete fields by dragging and dropping, or inserting unlimited forms anywhere you like.
    2069
    2170For advanced users, the plugin empowers you to customise the fields and display them the way you want by configuring settings in the admin panel, with little or no code at all.  Web developers may use it to deploy highly customised WooCommerce websites quickly.
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    3180* Admin only custom fields.
    3281
    33 * Use advanced relationship fields. The field can relate to products, marketing campaign, referrers, other users (your employee), other WordPress objects, or even objects outside of WordPress, thanks to the advanced relationship features implemented in another plugin called PODS.
     82* Use advanced relationship fields (with PODS form). The field can relate to products, marketing campaign, referrers, other users (your employee), other WordPress objects, or even objects outside of WordPress, thanks to the advanced relationship features implemented in PODS.
    3483
    35 When activated, CIO Custom Fields for Woo Customers creates some custom fields (billing and shipping addresses) and stores data in a format to share with PODS. You may use PODS graphical user interface to modify, add or delete the custom fields.
     84When activated, CIO Custom Fields and Groups creates some custom fields (billing and shipping addresses) and stores data in a format to share with PODS. You may use PODS graphical user interface to modify, add or delete the custom fields.
    3685
    3786The label you type will override WooCommerce's default labels. For example for the custom field called "city", you can type "suburb" or your local language to display in the custom fields.
    3887
    39 Once configuration is finished and if you don't need the advanced features of this plugin, PODS can be safely deactivated. CIO Custom Fields for Woo Customers does not need PODS to run.
     88Once configuration is finished and if you don't need the advanced features of this plugin, PODS can be safely deactivated. The free version of CIO Custom Fields and Groups does not need PODS to run.
    4089
    41 CIO Custom Fields for Woo Customers integrates with CIO Custom Fields Importer for data import.
     90CIO Custom Fields and Groups integrates with CIO Custom Fields Importer for data import and ongoing updating.
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    44 = CIO Custom Fields for Woo Customers Professional Edition =
     93= CIO Custom Fields and Groups Professional Edition =
    4594
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    47 The CIO Custom Fields for Woo Customers free edition supports text fields only.
     96The CIO Custom Fields and Groups free edition supports text fields only.
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    50 [CIO Custom Fields for Woo Customers Professional Edition](https://vipp.com.au/cio-custom-fields-importer) has the following extra features:
     99[CIO Custom Fields and Groups Professional Edition](https://vipp.com.au/cio-custom-fields-importer) has the following extra features:
     100
     101* Group custom fields created with Pods, or other plugins (data sharing with pods)
    51102
    52103* Validate submitted data
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    56107* Support fields accessible to admin only, or certain roles such as wholesaler only.
    57108
     109* Use on any content types (pages, posts, users, media, products etc)
     110
    58111* Frontend editing of custom fields by users
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    60113* Group custom fields by section for customised registration page layout.
    61114
    62 * Include section header and instruction texts
     115* Include section header and instruction texts, images, illustrations
    63116
    64117* Support multisites
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    69 CIO Custom Fields for Woo Customers Professional Edition comes with
     122CIO Custom Fields and Groups Professional Edition supports all of the following fields implemented in PODS.
     123
     124[Supported Field Types](http://pods.io/docs/learn/field-types/)
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     126
     127CIO Custom Fields and Groups Professional Edition comes with
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    71129* unlimited site license. you can use it on as many websites as you like, either owned by you or your clients, or your neighbors, or your friends.
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    83141
    84 To install the CIO Custom Fields for WooCommerce Customers, unzip the downloaded zip file and upload the folder to /wp-content/plugins/, and then activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress.
     142To install the CIO Custom Fields and Groups, unzip the downloaded zip file and upload the folder to /wp-content/plugins/, and then activate the plugin from the Plugins page in WordPress.
    85143
    86144If you are using Pods and have extended user with custom fields (meta storage), your custom fields will be used.
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    109167== Screenshots ==
    110168
    111 1. registration page with custom fields.
     1691. registration page with custom fields and groups.
    112170
    113 2. configuring custom fields. Note the green bar to mark the end of sections. You can drag and drop custom fields or the section divider to update the custom field group quickly.
     1712. configuring individual custom fields (feature by PODS). When groups are enabled in CIO Custom Fields and Groups professional edition, you can set up conditions as group default, and set up extra conditions for individual fields.
     172
     1733. color coded group headers (SkyBlue) and footers (GreenYellow). You can drag and drop custom fields, the headers or footers to update the custom field group quickly.
    114174(grouping of custom fields is available in professional edition only)
     175
     1764. conditions to display or hide the groups. Pods relationship fields are used as headers and footers. You can set up these fields to relate to objects in WordPress, or even tables outside WordPress.
     177
     1785. configuring display conditions of groups. This configuration set up here will be checked to decide whether to display a group.
     179
     1806. when this plugin is activated, you can use extra parameters (headers, footers) in Pods short code.
     181
     1827. example of headers and footers in generated form. You may customise the display of headers and footers with CSS.   
     183
     1848. extra custom fields in WooCommerce Checkout page, as an example.
     185
     1869. example of headers and footers in user profile.
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    115190
    116191== Support ==
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