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Dynamic Custom Menus [closed]

I've created a meta box so my client can choose which custom menus to use on certain pages. That seems to be working fine. However, I've created a second menu but only the original menu is showing up ...
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How to remove a metabox from menu editor page?

I am not sure if it is much different for any page but I am wondering how to remove a metabox from the appearance>menu page without having to go into the wordpress core files and remove it. Is there ...
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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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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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Auto close (hide) custom metabox / set default state

I am using the WordPress function add_meta_box() to add my own custom metabox. So how can I auto close/hide on page open ? Currently, I just add a CSS class closed to metabox's <div> element ...
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How to hide a plugin metabox for non admins when a user adds a new post

I've been able to disable all the meta boxes for non admin in their backend but I'm having problems with Facebook AWD All in one which creates a widget seen by all the users when they create new ...
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Check Types custom checkbox and metadata when publish post

I´m using Types to create metaboxes with custom checkboxes to make some custom functions. The problem I have is with this function I created: function check_zone_tag(){ $postid = get_the_ID(); ...
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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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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 activate “Description” metabox for menu item programmatically?

I'm creating custom wordpress theme. How can I enable "Description" metabox for menu items (on nav-menu page) by default programmatically?
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Specific coditional usage [closed]

I have some trouble making work a conditional inside a Function. check this out: I'm using this function: function get_spec_1(){ $desc1 = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'eco_mb_tp_1', true!= "" ); ...
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Displaying Saved Meta Box Data in Drop Down with selected()

I have a custom meta-box for certain custom post types, and one of those fields in the meta-box is a drop down. I am providing the field correctly, saving the information, and even calling it ...
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Post AND page parameter for WP function

Is there no post AND page parameter for WordPress functions? So would I have to create a custom post type to define post AND page? For example, add_meta_box( $id, $title, $callback, $post_type, ...
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Meta-Boxes for CustomPostType cause PHP Errors and Notices in “Add New” view

I have a custom-post-type named wr_events. I have quite a lot of meta-boxes in this post-type. The post-type and the meta-boxes itself work just fine. Only thing: No matter at what post-type I ...
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Wordpress metaboxes - textfield suggestion automatically populated

[Long story short] Is there any Wordpress plugin/function that would allow the creation/integration of a metabox's textfield that automatically populates a dropdown menu (in the admin area, while in ...
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Does Wordpress have a “Form API”

I do most of my development in Drupal, however I am working on a Wordpress site and I need to make a form. Which got me thinking, is there a Form API for wordpress like there is Drupal? Is there a way ...
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Use a shortcode to display custom meta box contents

Is this possible? If so, can someone point me towards a clear tutorial? I have a column of content I want to float right of the_content, so I'd like to be able to use a shortcode to put that content ...
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Global custom meta box

I am trying to create a custom meta box for multiple custom post types in WordPress without creating duplicate code. Currently I have: add_meta_box('adv_form_box1', 'Advanced Form', 'adv_form1', ...
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custom post type metaboxes not saving

I have the following code. I am trying to enter data into the custom metabox and then save it. When I go to view it has entered a post, however the name column has nothing in it. Also when I hit save ...
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Why is my custom meta box input not saving

I've added the following function to functions.php to add a custom meta box enabling the end user to input a gallery shortcode. I then intend to use this to place a gallery in a specific place on the ...
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More than one meta field in a single meta box?

I'm following this tutorial by Justin Tadlock on creating meta boxes. http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/create-custom-post-meta-boxes-wordpress/ I can get a meta box with a single field to ...
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Get fields from metabox array

In my functions I'm registering multiple metaboxes with custom fields. A single metabox array for instance, looks like this: In functions.php $meta_boxes[] = array( 'id' => 'general_info', ...
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How to change default position of WP meta boxes?

Im wondering if there is a way to change the default position of Wordpresses meta boxes such as "featured image" for custom post types without having to drag them manually? Example:
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Linking text within textarea of custom meta box

I'm using 'Meta Box Script for WordPress' to create custom meta boxes and everything is working great...except the following: We have a textarea that we want to act, basically as another WP ...
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How to change a meta value (of a published post) after X days.?

I have a custom field. I would like to change the text of that custom field after x days. I want something like this: if ( published post is more than 90 days old ) { echo "your post is more ...
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Removing Metabox for “Slug” without removing functionality

Here is an interesting question. I have recently noticed that if you utilize the code remove_meta_box('slugdiv', 'post', 'normal'); you are actually unable to modify the slug when you click on ...