Using File Fields Part 1: Set Up

In this video, we will walk through setting up our blog channel and making use of the EE’s file field for our blog featured image.

What We Do

• Set up our Upload Directory
• Create our File field
• Create our blog field group and channel

Code Snippets

None in this lesson

Links

• ExpressionEngine Create Upload Directories: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/control-panel/file-manager.html#createedit-upload-directory
• ExpressionEngine File Fieldtype: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/fieldtypes/file.html#file-fieldtype
• See all of the site build in action in the Learn EE git repository.

Discussion and Questions

• Discuss in the forum

Doug Black

Doug is the developer and founder at tripleNERDscore. He is also core contributor to, ExpressionEngine!