Toolset with WordPress 4.8

   Amir

Announcements

June 9, 2017
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Toolset plugins are working fine with WordPress 4.8. This release of WordPress doesn’t modify any API, so there’s no need for a new Toolset release for it.

As always, before you update your sites, we recommend doing a full backup. For our sites, we back-up everything, test on a staging server and then update the production server.

If you need help, pop a question in our support forum.

Coming Soon to Toolset

We’re working on a number of projects right now. Some will be ready very soon and some in a few months.

  • “No worries” setup for popular themes – We’ve been doing extensive testing between Toolset and a number of themes. Generally, it all works, but there are little gotchas like pagination appearing twice (from the theme and from Views), featured images showing when you don’t need them, etc.
    We’re working through these to make sure that you can use Toolset with these themes without having to struggle with anything.
  • New features for Toolset Maps – This will include geo-filtering, showing where the current user is and more.
  • Our many-to-many project – The project is actually coming along great. The first public release, which we’re aiming to happen in about a month, will include the full setup in Types,
    including displaying related fields.

Questions? Ideas? Feedback? Leave your comments and we’ll get back to you.

 

Comments 28 Responses

    • Most things are working fine together and we are working on a few cosmetics. What issues are you finding between GP and Layouts?

  4. It’s great to hear about the upcoming Toolset Map features. A big hearty thanks for the current functionality which allowed me to replace MapPress Pro.

  5. Nice to hear about powerful Toolset Maps improvements. What features will be implemented exactly?

    • We’re adding two major features to Toolset Maps:

      * Filter by distance – so you can find items within a certain distance of something
      * Add ‘your location’. This is coming from Google Maps API and is especially useful together with the filtering option.

      Together, you can easily implement a search for items within X Km from your location. You can also implement a search for items within X Km from Paris, etc.

  6. Sounds all great,

    please look into uploading images via CRED forms with captions/Alt tags for repeating fields.

    Thanks

  7. Very much looking forward to the post relationship project being public next month Amir!

    I loved your previous demo video you did a few weeks back. Do you think you might possibly do another demo video in the meantime demonstrating working with more advanced relationship combinations with multiple post types?

    I think many people (including myself) are curious as to how the GUI will work for people who have very advanced configurations.

    Thanks again for all you do Amir!

    Jason

    • I’ll definitely prepare another demo video and show what we have. We’ll do that next week, when there’s something significant to show.

  8. Amir,
    In the post relationship project, here are two propositions:
    1 – To be able to publish easily the parents of a CPT as we can already publish the children of a CPT.
    For instance, from a small R&D site we have built to test some of the Toolset features:
    http://www.tableaux.site/peintre/diego-velazquez/ => OK
    http://www.tableaux.site/lieu-exposition/doria-pamphilj-gallery/ => OK
    http://www.tableaux.site/tableau/portrait-du-pape-innocent-x/ => No way to publish easily the painter and the site where the painting is exposed.
    2 – To imbed a [simple and efficient] proprietary search function in Toolset and/or facilitate the Relevanssi use with Toolset (as you just did for themes (Divi for example)).
    Thanks for all the very interesting work your team is doing! 🙂
    Franck

  9. Thanks for letting us know!

    Have you had any chance to look over the Gutenburg plugin? Will we be able to use Toolset with it?

      • Thanks for replying.

        Of course I knew you’ll get it to work together by the time Gutenburg is in core. Never dawned on me otherwise!

        I was curious if any of you have been looking into how they work together now, while it is still in the early beta plugin stages? Maybe it’s too early for you to even look into it yet. I’m just wondering if I have to avoid the plugin on Toolset sites for now?

        Thanks for all your good work!

        • Toolset isn’t yet working with the Gutenburg plugin. Mind you that Gutenburg isn’t even rendering output correctly on the frontend. We’re working on it.

  10. Not working fine together. The new text widget with its default to the visual editor is a major problem in general and with Toolset. Single text widgets in layouts cannot be edited at all (specific to Toolset). Text widgets in widget areas lose content or get broken when opened for editing if they contain html, css, js, etc (Generic to WordPress).

    Anytime another plugin like Events Manager that doesn’t play well on pages with multiple Visual Editor cells is used, we Toolset users use the text widget as our work around so there are lots of text widgets on our clients’ sites. And now we cannot edit them. There’s a fairly robust debate on how to resolve this major mis-step with the text widget over on the WordPress forum. It would be very good for Toolset / Wp-Types to throw their voice into the conversation as some of the solutions being considered will result in a lot of work for us Toolset users and we’ve got working sites that cannot be edited and in-progress sites that cannot be completed until this gets resolved.

  11. Are there any news about the ‘filter by distance’-function with upcoming Maps? Thanks @Amir.

    • Hi there, Mario. This is Juan, Toolset team leader.

      As a starter, I can tell you that the work on the filter by distance is about 75% done. We have a first working prototype that includes several options and performs the filtering, but we want to polish and iron it a little and add all the options we had in mind before send it to proper testing and have it released. We want it to be powerful but also easy to use, and it requires a couple of usability iterations.

      It will be included in our next Toolset Maps release for sure.

      We are currently working to finish a join relese for Toolset plugins. The main focus in the first bullet point in the list described above in the blog post: themes compatibility.

      One of the good things on Toolset Maps is that it is quite independent from the rest of the family, so it usually does not need to be updated together with Types or Views. That gives us the flexibility to work on things on steps: we complete that project and then we get back to this, complete, and release.

      Hope it helps.