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What is the index [0] for on post meta fields?
Trying to improve my PHP knowledge through test and try! I am confused on [0] arguments at following WordPress PHP code
global $post;
$custom = get_post_custom($post->ID);
$price = ...
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How to Display Custom Meta Box only on Specific Page IDs
I am using Magic Fields 2 for custom meta boxes and custom fields, but this situation pertains to any meta box.
I have a custom meta box that I want to display on only 3 specific page IDs.
function ...
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Problem On Retrieving Post Meta Data on Custom Column [closed]
I am trying to add Custom post Metadata to a Custom Column. The meta-box has two text fields as Price and Company but When I publish a new post it just shows values from company in Price column and ...
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How to display all values of a multicheck array if they are checked?
I'm really a rookie to PHP, i'm using the customfield fields&meta boxes plugin for wordpress.
Normaly when i register a customfield,
i display them by using:
<?php if ( ...
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html to image featured image
hi how can i use the script below to be able to convert html to image in wordpress so that when i click a button it generates and set the image a featured image, i wanted to create a metabox in post ...
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Use Custom Post Type to as Custom Field
I am newbie of wordpress as well php programming.
I want to create a custom post type for store that having all store names and it is working. Now I want to fetch the all stores in select box in ...
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Saving zero in meta box
So I have created a meta box for a review rating. Sometimes the value of the rating (out of 5) is zero.
When you enter a 0 into the input and save the data, it doesn't process because of the fact 0 ...
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Create multiple checkboxes in a metabox
I am trying to figure our how to modify this code so that it creates a checkbox for each entry in the meta_key.
It is a meta box that will be used on the menu page.
The meta_key has multiple ...
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Where can I find the code for the menu page meta boxes?
I want to add a meta box to the menu page. More specifically I want to basically clone the pages or category meta box and have it load the items into the list from a meta key, instead of pages or ...
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Adding another state (spam, reject, approve) to wordpress comments?
i know this might sound a bit weird, but what I'm trying to do is rather simple in mind but may be technically difficult.
I'm running small contests on my wordpress site where I ask users to leave a ...
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1answer
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Why is my select meta data not saving?
I am working on a site at the moment where I need to save several different types of meta data for a custom post type.
At present I have a text input that is saving with no problem but am struggling ...
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How to tell if string is null or empty in meta value? [closed]
I am trying to figure out how to find out if a string is null or empty in php. The place I am pulling the value from is a meta value that is stored from a meta box on the post page.
I want to check ...
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How can I create a menu items from meta box based on users input
I have created a metabox that takes a name that the user can give as an additional name of their post. I am wondering how I can automatically create a menu item based on the name the user input into ...
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Trying to retrieve post meta
I have created a meta box that allows users to add an additional name/id to their post. From what I can tell it is adding the meta information correctly because when I edit a post that has a custom ...
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Get post meta retrieving wrong value
I created a custom meta box with a textbox where the user can enter a custom value in as an additional identification tag. I thought I had it right but when I try to retrieve the value it is giving me ...
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field of metabox is not visisible outside the function
I have a metabox with two static fields and one more field I add in ingredients_show_box function. All three fields are visible by $_POST when I save data. But the two static fields are visible by ...
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Custom Metabox additional item
I have a custom metabox that have 2 options: URL and a text box called "testimonial".
The URL box is working great(when i put some text in this field on admin, the text appears on site), but the ...
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Custom metaboxes not saving after switching themes
I recently switched themes and copied over my metaboxes from the old functions.php into the new one. They show up but when I click publish/edit they dont save
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', ...
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List of Posts in a Custom Field
I have a question. I have a custom post type called Place. I have a situation that there can be place in place. I want to have a custom field parent_place where I could choose a parent of place.
The ...
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Saving multiple Metabox contents
I'm putting together a fairly simple Custom Page for a friend on their WordPress site, but I'm having some real difficulties getting the contents of the Metaboxes to save correctly. WordPress doesn't ...
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Custom Metaboxes, multiple post selection
I have the following custom meta-box, which works to list a post type, I simply want to allow multiple values to be selected but cannot get it to work, it appears if I tell the select to store ...
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2answers
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Display background color or image with custom meta box?
With custom meta boxes, how would I go about displaying the background image (or color if no image is linked) within the page.
Code for the page where I want data to displayed. I want to apply the ...
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What do the numbers mean at the end of add_action('save_post')…?
I've seen on a few tutorials that there are numbers at the end of the call to save Custom Fields/Meta Boxes on the save_post hook. For example, in the WordPress Codex it gives the following example:
...
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I want my post to republish again after adding a custom field
I wanted a code in Wordpress that could allow me to republish the post every time I add a new custom field.
For example, if I already have a post and wanted to add an update to it; I want it to appear ...
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1answer
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How to save multiple metaboxes?
I read a tutorial about metaboxes, most of things are clear but I have a question about multiple metaboxes.
My question is about saving, in the tutorial:
<?php
add_action( 'save_post', ...
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Create custom field key upon theme activation
Upon theme activation I want to create an 'URL' key for the custom fields. Like in .
I know who to run functions when a theme is activated, I don't know how to create this custom field key though. ...
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Displaying Meta Box Image
I have some problems displaying info from my custom meta box in my custom post type single. I'm using Reusable Custom Wordpress Meta Boxes by Tammy Hart.
I'm able to display the textfields using ...
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1answer
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Formatting custom meta box date from YYYY/MM/DD to a more readable alternative
QUESTION
This is following a previous question that was graciously answered by Milo earlier here - How to sort CPT by custom meta value (date), and return posts month by month
In short, I'm having ...
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1answer
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Add a class to post_class if more than one post shares same meta_value_num
I would like to be able to add a class such as .samedate to posts that share the same meta_value_num from a custom meta box.
So for example:
Say two posts share the same custom meta box value for a ...
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1answer
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Custom Metabox Not Saving
I've simplified a problem of saving custom metaboxes on update and still can't get the box to save the custom-field input to the database.
This is the call from functions.php to an external file ...
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4answers
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Add additional field to custom post_type
I am trying to add another field (subtitle) to my already created and existing custom post_type: team (code from functions.php in my *child*theme)
<?php
/**
* Custom Post type register framework
...
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How to sort CPT by custom meta value (date), and return posts month by month
For future reference:
I am using the great Meta Box Plugin to help expedite meta box creation for my custom post types.
My goal:
To build a highly customizable events section closely resembling a ...
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Custom metabox not working
Morning!
I have a call in my functions.php file to include a custom meta-box php file in my theme's directory called: /metaboxes/home-meta.php
The code is as follows for the call:
add_action( ...
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How to load php file for specific page in admin?
Hello and thanks for the guidance!
Trying to load a custom .php file for only my home page (template is page-home.php) by using this code:
add_action('admin_init','load_home_meta');
function ...
0
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1answer
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A meta box (in a custom post type) with two different type of fields
I want to make a meta box (in a custom post type) with two different type of fields:
Text
and select, (maybe put it in array ?)
and display this meta box with this two fields with a single ID ...
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1answer
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Better Method for Multiple Meta Boxes
I'm learning about meta boxes and have gotten them to appear on my local dev, but I can't figure out how to avoid creating new functions for saving multiple meta boxes.
I assume that I could call an ...
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Populating meta box with select-list of existing posts, and assigning it to custom post types
My question is partly based on this answer:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/5778/27135
Mike's answer is really great, and the solution worked fine until I needed to include my meta box in a ...
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1answer
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Arrange custom fields with drag and drop?
I am making theme for hotel and i made custom metabox with list of various custom fields that i would need in posts.
What i did is i made a list of fields like
booking
wifienabled
coffe
pool
spa
...
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Textarea type on one field custom add_meta_box?
i got close solution for this question from this link "How to add a textarea to only one of the fields of this custom metabox?", but with different code and he use new metabox, i need to see value on ...
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WP_Query arguments: Loop through custom post type - get all entries except excluded meta_key?
Can't seem to find out what I'm doing wrong.
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'wr_event', // my custom post type
'posts_per_page' => -1, // show all posts
'meta_query' => array(
...
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1answer
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added a meta box to post however when saving menu while debug on throws a warning
I've added several meta boxes to post and the function that suppose to save those boxes.
When i save menus ( appearance -> menu). it throws a warning for each added menu or sub menu Notice: Undefined ...
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How to add add_meta_box to specific Page Template?
I want to add add_meta_box to specific page type like Page Template, Like Product Template.
I am using this article http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/create-custom-post-meta-boxes-wordpress/ ...
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How can I hide custom field from users used for caching response from external api?
I have a custom meta box created using Rilwis meta box script(http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/meta-box/) inside my theme functions.php.
It has 2 text fields, one field is required to fetch results from ...
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2answers
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How can i do custom author list?
My blog have many author. I can list all author.
All Author list:
<ul>
<?php wp_list_authors('exclude_admin=0&optioncount=1&show_fullname=1&hide_empty=1'); ?>
</ul>
...
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Save an array from drop-down in custom meta box
I have successfully pulled a custom post type through into a drop-down that is in a custom meta box. However, when displaying it on the front end I would like to also provide a link to the actual ...
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When editing a post with a custom meta box the values aren't displaying correctly
I followed this tutorial to create a custom meta box with a simple two option drop down.
My code is below. The custom fields are saved when creating a post, and edit when I change the value and ...
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1answer
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get_posts in meta box dropdown not showing latest posts
I’ve got a metabox I set up using WPAlchemy that allows authors to add a link to an associated post. It’s been working fine for months but now for some reason the dropdown with the appropriate posts ...
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dynamically add a custom field or metabox to custom post type [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Create more Meta Boxes as needed
I am creating a plugin that registers a Custom Post Type. Let's call it "Cars". I am looking to be able to add custom fields(or ...
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1answer
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loop through custom post-type with two meta_keys
I have a custom-post-type named my_project.
This post-type has two meta-boxes:
is_featured
is_featured_position
So essentially in my backend of the post-type I can set a checkbox for is_featured ...
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Individual Widgets per Page
In my (page-only, no posts) Wordpress site I have a number of static blobs in need to put in a sidebar. We could call/tream thoses 'blobs' as widgets. At least they'll have a fixed html content, like ...
