Carbon Fields in MU Plugins

[duncanarrow]

I take it Carbon Fields can't be installed via the mu-plugins folder?

I just like the idea of it being out of view of clients, but it doesn't work when I put it in there. Unless I'm missing something?

[dhalucario]

If you want to get it out of the clients grasp you can create a vendor folder in a child theme and include it using that. These should help you to do so: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ https://docs.carbonfields.net/quickstart.html

Put the code in the functions.php of the child theme.

[duncanarrow]

Thanks. I'm just having problems using Composer on my local MAMP install. I can compile it but when I drag the directory online it crashes the website claiming the files can't be found.

I've never found Composer particularly user-friendly. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but I have no idea what.

Hence why I always revert back to the pre-compiled plug in version.

[dhalucario]

Would you mind showing us the error you get when you upload the files and show us where you uploaded the files using screenshots?

[xrazrab]

I added the fields plugin directory carbon-fields to mu-plugins

And I connected this plugin using a file: mu-plugins/carbon-fields.php

I copied the name and description of the plugin there and connected the main file carbon-fields-plugin.php from the plugin directory

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: Carbon Fields
 * Description: WordPress developer-friendly custom fields for post types, taxonomy terms, users, comments, widgets, options, navigation menus and more.
 * Version: 3.6.3
 * Author: htmlburger
 * Author URI: https://htmlburger.com/
 * Plugin URI: http://carbonfields.net/
 * License: GPL2
 * Requires at least: 5.0
 * Tested up to: 6.4
 * Text Domain: carbon-fields
 * Domain Path: /languages
 */

require_once plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . 'carbon-fields/carbon-fields-plugin.php';

It turned out that all the functionality works as standard!