↓Skip to main content
Dessky.org Dessky.org
  1. All Posts/

lucid-toolbox

Tools Open Source PHP WordPress

Lucid Toolbox


A set of classes used to speed up and automate common tasks.

  • Lucid_Admin_Column for adding custom admin columns.
  • Lucid_Post_Type for creating custom post types.
  • Lucid_Taxonomy for creating custom taxonomies.
  • Lucid_Settings for creating settings pages using the Settings API.
  • Lucid_Contact for creating contact forms.
  • Lucid_WPAlchemy (forked from WPAlchemy_MetaBox) for creating metaboxes.

The plugin doesn’t do anything by itself, apart from loading language files. It simply allows usage of the classes through something like:

if ( defined( 'LUCID_TOOLBOX_CLASS' ) && ! class_exists( 'Lucid_Settings' ) )
    require LUCID_TOOLBOX_CLASS . 'lucid-settings.php';

Read more about each class in the included documentation, located in the ‘doc’ directory.
Lucid Toolbox is currently available in the following languages:

  • English
  • Swedish

Changelog

1.2.3: Feb 18, 2018

Lucid_Settings 1.8.1

  • Tweak: Allow numbers in editor IDs.
  • Fix: Remove deprecated screen_icon calls.

Lucid_WPAlchemy 1.6.1

  • Fix: Don’t count null, fixes PHP 7.2 warning.

1.2.2: Jan 08, 2017

Lucid_Contact 1.9.0

  • New: Public setters for form and field messages, set_field_error and set_form_status (with set_form_error, set_form_warning and set_form_success helpers for using the correct class names). Should probably add the same three ‘levels’ for field messages.
  • New: Run the lucid_contact_sent action when a message is sent.
  • Tweak: Improve file fields, primarily the error handling
    • Improve inline error messages
    • Remove successfully uploaded files when there are errors
    • Improve validation, including stricter checking of file size and MIME types
  • Tweak: More default allowed extensions and MIME types should now cover most of the commonly used document and image formats. Allow merging with defaults when adding custom ones via new parameter, instead of just overwriting.
  • Tweak: Disable the email DNS check by default.
  • Fix: Ensure POST values belong to the current form, in case of multiple forms with the same field names on the same page.

Lucid_WPAlchemy 1.6.0

  • New: Handle cloning of multiple ‘roots’ for repeatable groups, instead of just the first one.
  • New: Add a second parameter to [get_]the_group_open for adding extra classes to the group warpping element.

Lucid_Admin_Column 1.0.1

  • Fix: Use call_user_func PHP 5.3 compatibility.

1.2.1: Sep 25, 2016

Lucid_Contact 1.8.0

  • New: Set separate Reply-To addresses with $[extras_]reply_to_name and $[extras_]reply_to_address. The extra recipient properties are also no longer required, falling back to the regular ones if not set.
  • New: Setting the value on textual fields now pre-fills instead of ignoring.
  • New: get_subject and get_message are now public, because anything else doesn’t make any sense.

1.2.0: Mar 01, 2015

Lucid_Admin_Column 1.0.0

A new class for adding custom columns to admin post lists. Can be used both as a standalone class and as a new argument for Lucid_Post_Type. See included docs for usage.

Lucid_Post_Type 1.3.0

  • New: Add 'columns' argument for adding custom admin columns to the post type, using Lucid_Admin_Column.

1.1.12: Feb 23, 2015

Lucid_Post_Type 1.2.1

  • Tweak: Deprecate the custom icon arguments, use the built-in menu_icon instead.

Lucid_Settings 1.8.0

  • New: Add menu method to create top level menu items.
  • New: Add 'editor_settings' parameter to field for custom arguments to wp_editor when adding editor fields.
  • New: Add load_callback property that can be set to a callable, which is called on the load-(page) hook only when on the settings page.

WPAlchemy_MetaBox 1.5.2.lucid-2, now Lucid_WPAlchemy

With this version it’s a complete fork and will not fully match the original class.

  • New: Add defaults to checkbox, select and radio from upstream.
  • Tweak: Change the class name to Lucid_WPAlchemy. If no WPAlchemy_MetaBox class exists, it will be defined and extend Lucid_WPAlchemy to keep backwards compatibility. This may be removed eventually.
  • Tweak/fix: Improve the JavaScript for repeatable field’s copy/delete and make it work when using the area argument.
  • Tweak: Some general code style changes and cleanup.
  • Remove: All display options have been removed: hide_title, hide_editor, lock, view and hide_screen_option. They were relying on JavaScript and CSS to accomplish their purpose and didn’t feel future proof or maintainable. Removing the editor can be done on the post type itself and the area argument can handle different placements. The title should always be editable, even if it’s not used publicly.

1.1.11: Apr 13, 2014

Lucid_Contact 1.7.0

  • New: Add reverse_validation argument to add_field, which reverses any custom regex validation result. True by default due to initially stupid thinking and thus backwards compatibility.
  • New: Add the self-explanatory get_field_data method.
  • New/tweak: Allow any values for checkboxes instead of defaulting to boolean. Derp.
  • New/tweak: Validation methods are now public and the default validation can be disabled by setting the new validate_send property to false. Allows ‘faking’ a POST and using data from another source.
  • Tweak: Don’t count zeroes as empty values in validation.
  • Tweak/fix: Don’t add aria-required to checkboxes, since it’s invalid HTML for some reason.
  • Tweak/fix: Remove referer check, since it’s not always set.
  • Fix: Add UTF-8 modifier (u) to line break regex. Fixes some other characters getting garbled.

1.1.10: Dec 09, 2013

  • Tweak/fix: Include this temporary workaround for the issue with __FILE__ in symlinked plugins, see trac ticket #16953.

Lucid_Post_Type 1.2.0

  • New: Add icon argument for the new Dashicons in WordPress 3.8.

Lucid_Settings 1.7.0

  • New: Add is_on_settings_page method, which returns true if the settings page is currently displayed. This can be wrapped in an if statement around the field calls to reduce unnecessary function calls.
  • Tweak/fix: Fix some notices and encoding issues, and improve the error highlighting script.
  • Fix: Restore missing inline label argument for add_settings_field callbacks.

WPAlchemy_MetaBox 1.5.2.lucid-1

  • New: Add area argument (string). Defaults to metabox, which doesn’t do anything different. Can also be set to after_title or after_editor, which will add the metabox template content directly to the page in those places. Since it’s not a meta ‘box’ in those cases, arguments like title, context etc. won’t have any effect.
  • Tweak: Move the htmlentities filtering from get_the_value to the_value, so that the pure data can be passed to a wp_editor instance.

1.1.9: Nov 03, 2013

Lucid_Settings 1.6.0

  • New: Add 'output_callback' parameter to field, which allows custom callback methods for the field HTML.
  • New/tweak: What should have been done right from the start: if a field type is not ‘supported’, just add it as input [type] instead of converting to text.
  • Tweak: Add novalidate to the form, to disable inconsistent browser validation of some field types.
  • Fix: The html method now works with checklists.

Lucid_Contact 1.6.2

  • New: Add the is_form_sent method for checking the success state.
  • New: Add aria-required and aria-invalid attributes to fields when appropriate.

1.1.8: Oct 20, 2013

Lucid_Settings 1.5.1

  • Tweak: Don’t call settings_errors on options pages, since they’re apparently called automatically there. If I’ve finally understood this correctly, pass_settings_errors_id should no longer be needed.

1.1.7: Oct 06, 2013

Lucid_Settings 1.5.0

  • New: Add color_picker field type, to show a color picker (duh).
  • Tweak: Default pass_settings_errors_id to false instead of true. I seem to always set this to false nowadays, so the double message behavior may have been a bug that has been fixed.

Lucid_Contact 1.6.1

  • Tweak: Ignore validation on optional fields if the value is empty. This allows validation on optional fields, while still allowing them to be optional. One example would be an optional email field; an empty value shouldn’t cause an error, but a filled one should if the email is invalid.
  • Tweak: Set input-error CSS class on input fields with errors.

1.1.6: Sep 16, 2013

Lucid_Contact 1.6.0

  • New: Finally add a stupidly obvious way of freely using HTML without add_to_field_list, by separating the form assembly and render methods. See new ‘Separate field rendering’ section in the documentation.
  • Tweak: Disable the nonce field added in 1.5.2 by default. A nonce can cause issues if caching is used, since the nonce string can be cached and thus invalid for a time until the cache is renewed. A hidden field with the internal form ID is used instead, so there can still be multiple forms on the same page. The new use_nonce property (defaults to false) can be used to get the old behavior.

1.1.5: Aug 25, 2013

Lucid_Post_Type 1.1.2

  • Tweak: Check the post type name before registering and trigger errors if it’s invalid.

Lucid_Taxonomy 1.1.3

  • Tweak: Check the taxonomy name before registering and trigger errors if it’s invalid.

Lucid_Settings 1.4.0

  • New: Add post and page select list fields,…


↑