Custom fields have been in Joomla for quite some time, but how often do you actually use them? In this talk, I'll demonstrate how I've taken advantage of custom fields recently. We'll then have the usual Q&A session where you can bring along all your questions.

1. Custom Fields in Joomla
Joomla User Group Sydney March 2019
Presented by Tim Plummer

2. History
• Custom fields were added to core Joomla in version 3.7 (April 2017)
• Originally based on third party extension DP Fields (Digital Peak)

3. Documentation
• https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage/J3.x:Adding_custom_fields
• https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Adding_custom_fields/Overrides

4. Add additional fields to your content

5. Display those custom fields on front end

6. Step 1 – create Field Groups

7. Step 2 – create custom fields in field group

8. Make sure you
set field group,
and which
category of
articles this will
appear in

9. Before Display (default setting)

10. After Title

11. After Display

12. Do not automatically display

13. Step 3 – use template override to format

14. Template override
/templates/YOURTEMPLATE/html/com_content/article/default.php
First load the helper and put custom fields into an array

15. Then display the fields
Each has a label
echo $myCustomFields['time']->label;
and a value
echo $myCustomFields['time']->rawvalue;

16. Add CSS to make it look nice

17. Questions