Joomla custom types / custom fields without plugin?

Question

I am currently tasked with maintaining two Joomla websites built with Yoo theme, which uses Zoo for custom content types and custom fields. I have heard that in recent versions of Joomla there is native support for such things, rendering extensions like Zoo or K2 redundant, allowing us to take a more native Joomla approach.

This company seems to offer an option to migrate "Joomla Zoo" to "Joomla!", seeming to imply that this is possible, but it is difficult to tell for sure based on reading their site.

Is this true? I have been unable to turn up much information through the usual scouring of Google. If so then we would like to explore the possibility of removing Zoo from the project as it is a real pain to use.

Answer 1

It's planned for future versions of Joomla! a native custom fields feature, at this time you can do this in this possible ways without an extension:

• Creating a custom form field type
  https://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_custom_form_field_type
• Adding custom fields to core components using a plugin https://docs.joomla.org/Adding_custom_fields_to_core_components_using_a_plugin
• Standard form field types
  https://docs.joomla.org/Standard_form_field_types

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Find more info here:
https://joomla.digital-peak.com/blog/198-custom-fields-in-joomla-3-6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDh1IPuZAVA