Questions tagged [metabox]
Refers to a box-like reusable user-interface component common in the WordPress backend.
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Display metabox galleries on specific page template in admin editor
I'm building a Wordpress website with two metabox galleries displayed only on post type page in admin editor.
What I'm trying to do is to display them only for a specific template page in the admin ...
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Add metabox to pages that use custom template in WordPress
I am trying to add custom metaboxes to only those pages that use a certain custom template that is applied to them.
How can i do this? I based on this this guide:
How to add add_meta_box to specific ...
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How to use custom form on add_meta_boxes callback
I am trying to trigger the echo when the form button will click.
but not able to do this. if I don't use form and direct echo there. this is working. but when I use a form, it's not working.
can ...
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How to 'clone' select metabox options with a callback function? [closed]
Here is my metabox
array(
'id' => 'all_btns',
'name' => 'Button Select',
'type' => 'select',
'options' => array(
'button' =&...
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WP nonce field checkbox prints checked='checked' outside input field
I'm currently creating a custom post type in wich I want to add some custom meta boxes. All the fields just go as expected excepting a checkbox field wich prints on the html checked='checked' after ...
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Render metabox gallery in frontend
I'm building two metabox galleries on the same page with the help of a tutorial. The code works fine. However the galleries are automatically displayed after the content on the front end.
What I would ...
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Making custom meta box required (with error message if not filled in) on Gutenberg
<input required name="myName" type="text" value="<?php echo $myValue; ?>" class="regular-text">
Does not produce an error message if the field is ...
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HTML for adding a meta box (basic text field) to page editor?
I am following this tutorial from to add a meta box to pages of a certain page template.
Unfortunately the code omits the part on how to create the actual meta box on the page (the HTML).
The code in ...
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Create custom Content Editor for CPT [closed]
Hi I'm new to Wordpress theme dev.
I'm trying ro create a custom theme (child theme) in order to create a CPT for books. There I would like to have 3 separate WYSIWYG editors (english, french, german) ...
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how to only allow one selection to be made in meta box
Okay so I have one metabox for my CPT and it has multiple dropdowns in it. I need help in only allowing one selection to be made.
if ( get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'item_type', true ) == 'page' ) {
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Remove Username and just show Name in Author Metabox in backend
In the Author Metaboxes for Posts / pages / custom types, it shows: Name (Username)
Is there anyway to customize this to just show Name only? Or maybe Name and Role?
I am pretty sure if it done with ...
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How to modify the output of wp_terms_checklist when used within the built-in category metabox on edit posts?
On the Edit Screen in the WP Admin there is a meta box for WP's built-in Category taxonomy. This meta box is built using post_categories_meta_box() (/wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php).
This meta box ...
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Remove action of an external plugin after checking if custom post meta is set
Edit:The problem were 2 folds - somehow the order list I found before indicated wp_head was before wp_enqueue_scripts but that is not the case. Found another more updated one and it is actually right ...
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How to hide metaboxes in WordPress Admin on WooCommerce “Add Product” page - Remove side sortables for a specific user role
How do I hide certain metaboxes in WordPress Admin screen options for specific user roles?
For example, I allow the user role "Store Vendor" to access the WordPress admin to upload their ...
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How to add search to custom taxonomy boxes in non-gutenberg editor
I am using the latest version of WordPress (5.7) and have created a custom post type with custom taxonomies. I do not have the Gutenberg editor activated for the post type, so I do not have search for ...
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How to make a front end fields from metabox
I want to clarify that I am not a specialist, my query is how to insert a metabox in the front end, specifically I show you the image:
I want to do this:
But actually I have this:
Those are the php ...
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Post and Pages section inside WordPress admin are completely blank
Meta Tags - Undefined array due to meta tags!
I have created my own custom post meta tags but all works fine until I test my WordPress theme on the new WordPress Installation.
What I came through ...
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Change the context of excerpt metabox for the 'New Post' page
With the Gutenberg layout, is it possible to adjust the context, or position, of the Excerpt metabox from the sidebar of the 'New Post' or 'Edit Post' admin page, to the main area, i.e. to a 'normal' ...
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Creation of a search page and event display with datepicker metaboxes
Being a beginner in the development of Wordpress theme,
I'm currently trying to create a custom search filter on a dedicated event search page template.
For this, I created custom fields of date ...
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remove metabox is not working for wp 5.7
Hi I am using wordpress 5.7 and Vidio theme, Here the theme have some plugins with it. Those plugins create a metabox with id haru_video_attached_directors. I want to remove this metabox from custom ...
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Unable to display selected post title in frontend from metabox wp_dropdown_pages()
I created a metabox in admin using wp_dropdown_pages() to display the list of posts from my custom post type workshop. The metabox dropdown works fine in admin, I can select the post title and save it....
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Load Dynamic Template Page by Metabox
Does anyone know how I can implement Wordpress as shown in the image below? I would like to have a unique url passing the company_name metabox as a parameter and from business_type create a function ...
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How to detect if metabox content was updated by the user
I am handling metaboxes and their updating process the standard way:
// Attached to the save_post hook
function the_save_stuff_handler($post_id, $post){
// Early return
if(defined('...
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Show metabox value last post excerpt, title and link
I'm facing a problem I can't solve.
I'd like to get the excerpt, title and link of the last post containing a particular meta-box button status.
For example: I would like to retrieve the last post ...
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Move the metaboxes to the very top of post editor
I have this function that creates a custom metabox (with the metabox .io plugin), i would like the metabox to stay on top just below the title field
this is the code i am using
function generator_api()...
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Multisite Menu Metabox to list all sites in Network for Dynamic Network Site Menuitems
I don't understand why this functionality doesn't exist in Wordpress Multisite TBH.
I have this working for Custom Menus and the List of Sites on the Nework is working in a Metabox also. However, I ...
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Using wp_editor tinyMCE in metabox cause form alert on leaving page
Using tinyMCE as wp_editor in a custom post type metabox create an alert when I try to submit or If I want to change location
I don't have such behavior using Quicktags, but since TinyMCE is easier ...
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how to save and get selected item id list with add_meta_box
hi all i need create to metabox in page for the footer and header posttypes i created, in this code i tried for this but i cant save selected item and retrive id selected item in the frontend.
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Multiple header style under meta box
I am a wordpress developer. There is a problem I want add multiple headers through metabox in my theme but there is not working.
Code:
add_action("admin_init" , "multi_header_meta_box&...
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How to improve my non-unique metadata MySQL entries?
I'm working on a plugin for WooCommerce which uses a cpt called Restock. In a Restock post you can enter products ( id ) plus restock. The user can add as many product restock pairs as they want per ...
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display failed status on post edit
I created a meta box in the post edit interface that modifies a portion of a post on update (publish/pending/update/etc.) It's working great. I have tried a number of things to invoke a failed status ...
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how can i do metabox [closed]
how can I make a metabox like in the picture
episode title : Episodes 1
Serie Name : The Seven Deadly Sins
AirDate : gg.aa.yyyy
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how can I make this metabox area
how can I make this metabox area
function bolumler_metabox()
{
$screens = ['post', 'page'];
foreach ($screens as $screen) {
add_meta_box(
'episodes', // Benzersiz ID
...
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Wordpress default post categories meta box widget
I have a plugin that automatically selects the categories in the wordpress post editor, sadly after installing the Rank Math - SEO plugin the default metabox of the post editor has changed and the ...
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Visual editor issue by having multiple tiny mce editors in a CPT
I have a custom post type in which I have added multiple wysiwyg editors, when I click on visual, the content of the editor (button, text, title) get inside of the wysiwyg editor.. it's odd.
It looks ...
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How to show cmb_meta_boxes in a seperated page?
I am using cmb_meta_boxes v1
I need to know the best way to show $meta_boxes fields automatically in a separated page for every post if exists.
For example :
I am creating a new post
The permalink of ...
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Taxonomy custom check box meta field not getting saved
I am trying to add a simple checkbox to the category page but it not getting saved for some reason. Please help to fix the code below. Basically, I registered a meta then created check box. CheckBox ...
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meta box image responsive srcset and sizes attributes value
I create meta box and and save it's value update_post_meta( $post_id, 'cover_image', sanitize_text_field( wp_unslash( $_POST['cover_image'] ) ) );
I use it in template -
<?php
global $wp_query;
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Custom Metabox data slow query on Admin init
recently my database got very large either in posts and postmeta, and when accessing the WP admin it loaded on init something like 700mb of data, and it was slowing down the entire backend.
I found ...
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Show a custom post title in another custom post type in Meta box
I have created two custom post type. Suppose A and B.
I would like to fetch A custom post title in B in meta box in a drop-down.
I am not getting any solution.
Is anybody help me to find the solution.
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Set class if a meta value is set within post archive
I'm attempting to add a class to posts when the meta key 'checkbox' is clicked. Here's what I have:
<?PHP $checkbox = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'checkbox', true);
if (!empty($checkbox)){ $...
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Adding text box with add_meta_box
This is my code:
$configuracoes = register_post_type( 'configuracoes', $args );
$configuracoes->add_meta_box(
'dados',
'Personalize os dados de impressão',
array(
'tabs',
...
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Activating metabox from admin not working
i was following a youtube tutorial of how to make wordpress admin option
but stuck at a point
i am trying to activate or show a metabox on all pages only when a contact form setting is activated from ...
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Found 2 elements with non-unique id (#_ajax_nonce) and (#_wpnonce)
I am developing custom theme from scratch and creates a custom post type and getting this warning while editing custom post type. I also design custom Meta box with two input fields and using nonce in ...
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get_post_meta giving errors while creating a metabox
i was following atutorial on how to make a custom metabox to wordpress post but
its giving errors
here is my full code
//Add Metabox
function diwp_custom_metabox(){
//add_meta_box(metabox_id,...
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Metaboxes in custom post type disappear on save/publish
I'm maintaining a friend's website, and after updgrading to WP 5.5 some custom metaboxes on custom post type edit pages stared disappearing on save, but not all.
There's a custom post type - 'Releases'...
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Nested Repeaters In functions.php
I've a repeater and I want to put another repeater inside of it, but I don't know how!
So I want to have a repeater that is inside of another repeater. I'm using it for a trailer I think.
And I want ...
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Don't know why post meta doesn't work even no error is thrown
I am having a problem with post meta. I have a custom meta box for posts. But when I select the option it doesn't work. Neither does this code throw any error. One week ago it worked like charm. Here ...
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Add and create multiple meta boxes for a custom post type
I'm trying to save the input from the 3 meta boxes I created. Here is my code below. What am I missing since I am only saving the smashing-post-class 3 times.
/* Fire our meta box setup function on ...
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Getting List of all registered Dashboard Widgets
I am trying to get a list of all registered meta boxes in the wordpress admin, specifically the Dashboard widgets.
Now this is easily achieved with the global variable $wp_meta_boxes and does exactly ...
