SmartSimian Creator

Whatever type of website you need, Creator from SmartSimian Software can get you there. Instead of being limited to WordPress's out-of-the-box blogging tools -- posts, pages, tags, comments -- Creator allows you to create your own custom content, fields, taxonomies, and connections. Content types let you create custom content based on what you need, such as:

• Portfolio Items
• Presentations
• Events
• Properties
• Menu Items
• Churches
• Movie Reviews

Fields let you add information to your content:

• Simple text and number fields
• Richly-editable text boxes
• True-or-false checkboxes
• Links and URLs
• File uploads
• Date/time fields

Taxonomies are ways to categorize your content with dropdowns or checklists, such as:

• Event Type
• Movie Rating
• Issue
• Location

Connections types let you create direct relationships between your content or users, such as:

• Articles connected to multiple authors
• Events connected to Attendees
• Car Models connected to Car Brands
• Ingredients connected to Recipes

If you like Creator, add-ons available at smartsimian.com allow you to go further:

• Create custom displays and views for your content with Templates
• Create lists of content and easy-to-build search forms with Search
• Add submission forms with Submissions
• Analyze your data in CSV exports with Reports

Automatic Install

1. Log into your WordPress dashboard and go to Plugins → Add New
2. Search for "SmartSimian Creator"
3. Click "Install Now"
4. Click "Activate Now"

Manual Install

1. Download the plugin from the download button on this page
2. Unzip the file, and upload the resulting smartsimian-creator folder to your /wp-content/plugins directory
3. Log into your WordPress dashboard and go to Plugins
4. Activate SmartSimian Creator

2.0.1

• Update to box.js for BackBone 1.1 (WP 3.9 update)
• Turn developer constants off

2.0.0

• Redesigned, responsive layouts for admin single pages
• Bulk importer/exporter
• Integrated WP dashicons as new icon set
• "Are you sure" message before deletions
• Simple UI tooltip system
• Allow content types to include title, editor, other default meta boxes
• Hide title/slug template options for content by default
• Taxonomies and connection types can now be added/synced when creating fields
• Taxonomy fields now have "order" option to go with orderby
• Connections can now have more than one content type per side
• Extracted WYSIWYG option in longtext field types to a rich_text field type
• Removed connection sort/label options
• Better handling of connections with the same content type on both sides
• System names can now be edited when adding a new item
• Updated P2P engine
• Remember active tab after form submit
• Maintain taxonomy hierarchy in checklists
• Fixed quick-edit repopulation issue
• Post titles now constantly filtered according to title_template
• Better handling for link fields
• Removed dependency on a late static binding
• Improved connection type labels in various places in the UI
• Cleaner sysname generation
• Query UI narrowing options can now check against global post
• In UI list screens, default showing is now 20
• Many UI text changes
• Many more bug fixes

1.2.1

• Added generic $before and $after parameter to div_container
• A few undefined index fixes for licenses
• Updates to license screen, fixes erroneous expired license notification

1.2.0

• Extracted template component functionality
• Turned on licensing for extensions
• Added 'network' to reserved terms list
• Fixed undefined index bug in simian_check_for_updates

1.1.4

• Removed license requirement for base plugin only

1.1.3

• Fixed bug hiding title fields on non-Simian post type edit screens

1.1.2

• Added GPL2 language
• false_label now shows up in templates
• Cleaned up title/slug handling on post edit screens
• simian_get_fields now able to return only meta fields
• Added classes to fieldset table output
• Updated jQuery timepicker to 1.4
• Added jQuery autosize plugin for UI text boxes
• Text boxes now use code font where appropriate
• Changes simian_is_json behavior to fix Dismiss button bug
• excerpt_more now accepts HTML
• Added admin notice if permalinks are not turned on
• Changed Builder language to Creator

1.1.1

• Multiple meta/tax rows in query UI now counted properly
• Added stripslashes where necessary in admin UI columns, text fields
• Minor UI fixes in uploads.js
• true_label and false_label now accept HTML
• Added empty_option option for text fields
• Reworded a few connection error messages
• Added filter to run before a p2p connection occurs to check for custom errors
• Added user query support to simian_get_pagination
• User templates now properly categorized as such on template list page
• Properly hide inner containers in newly-generated rows in repeater
• Disabled duplicate-clicks on admin pages with javascript method

1.1.0

• Added complete licensing/updating system. Turned off by default
• Re-arranged home screen; components no longer need activation
• Removed a general option and cleaned up other option wording
• Added extension and license API functions, modified components API
• Switched to wp_filter_post_kses from wp_kses_post for html sanitization
• Minor cleanup of uploads.js
• Add nopriv ajax hook for not-logged-in submission form uploads
• Added wp_link_pages as template block option
• Enabled filters when outputting excerpt or content template blocks
• Allow non-custom content types to create templates
• Properly stripslashes in before, after, and alt text sections of template UI
• Updated wording for use_template functionality in template UI
• Fixed featured image support in submission forms
• Template blocks now respect unfiltered_html capability
• Shortcodes in templates now more reliable
• Removed uninstall.php
• Template generation now accounts for multiple uploads per field properly

1.0.4

• Logic cleanup when saving meta fields
• Partial support for connection rules in query ui added
• Fixed text_template bug in which full p2p object was called instead of name
• Allow simian_add_item to force a system name or fail
• Content types now have show_ui always on but show_in_menu toggleable
• Added clean display error on fields if connection type doesn't exist
• Set new character limits for content type, taxonomy, and connection type system names
• Fix embedding when filtering content
• Fixed template UI bug in which image_link could not stay set to blank

1.0.3

• Custom term and connection links now just run through kses instead of sanitize_text_field
• Added additional taxonomy options to Template UI to show slugs, descriptions, count
• Added 'user' to reserved terms list
• Attempt to generate sysname in simian_add_item
• Deleted outdated jquery ui files
• Scoped jQuery UI CSS to just inside 'simian' class; added option to disable entirely
• Changed sort() to asort() in Fields UI (fixes bug in commit #52)
• Removed extra if conditional in fields output preventing submitted data from reappearing after error
• Connection Type sysnames now forced to remain below 44 characters
• Display content types next to taxonomy labels in Fields UI
• Select2 ajax multiselect for posts now limits to relevant post type
• Removed Connection UI Advanced tab and all options within
• Reordered component load to tweak Builder submenu order
• Added filter for connection type args
• Minor css and text cleanup, fixed path to jquery ui images

1.0.2

• Reorganized core/includes/functions.php
• Added Item API functions simian_add_item, simian_update_item, simian_delete_item, simian_restore_item
• Fixed bug in UI displaying content title and slug selections
• Builder toolbar item now only appears in admin and only for users with manage_options cap
• Fieldset connection list now populates correctly (recent bug)
• In Query UI, inner row elements generated after extra rows have been added below now generate the correct counter
• Query UI's generated list of meta fields now no longer includes non-meta fields, also will display sysname if no label
• Wrapping a link around each inner template of a template now works
• Template UI Options style tweak while selecting inner templates
• Template UI text clarifications. "Use As" switched to "Location", drop down option labels refined.
• When saving results in error on single pages, entered data will now persist on all components

1.0.1

• Removed references to Simian_Help
• Removed contextual help tab test
• Allow URL label in template builder to use HTML
• Added 'date' to reserved terms list to avoid admin column conflict
• Don't allow creating fields in fieldsets for connection types with same 'from' and 'to' value
• Disabled can_create_post option for connection types in field sets

1.0.0

• Initial release.