Merging Fields

The next step is go through all of the site func­tion­al­i­ty and test that every­thing is work­ing as expected. 

Dur­ing the Craft 5 upgrade process, all of the Matrix fields’ blocks, block types, and fields, were con­vert­ed to entries, entry types, and glob­al fields, respectively.

Because of that, we have dozens of new fields that didn’t pre­vi­ous­ly exist in our project. In pre­vi­ous ver­sions of Craft CMS, Matrix block fields were not reusable. So, when they’re cre­at­ed as glob­al fields, we might have a lot of redundancy. 

To help man­age that, there’s a fields merge con­sole com­mand avail­able. We use that to merge some fields and reduce our redundancy.