Questions tagged [metabox]
Refers to a box-like reusable user-interface component common in the WordPress backend.
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Preset custom fields
I'm creating a wordpress plugin which will create a custom post with custom fields like "time", "rating" etc whose will be fillable in admin. So far all tutorials I've seen only ...
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Add metabox if there is at least one post available
So I am building a WordPress Dashboard widget which will showcase all posts & pages where a Gutenberg Block is active.
The below code does it's job and pulls in an array based on get_posts().
Here ...
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update post meta for checkbox in the admin when inserted in the front-end
Here's my problem, I allow a certain user type to create custom post type in the front-end of my site, with the wp_insert_post() function... users can put values within a form and there's couple of ...
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How to disable Author dropdown in Gutenberg's Status and Visibility panel
I recently noticed a new feature in the Gutenberg editor (I'm guessing introduced in Wordpress 5.8) that seemingly allows any user to post as any other user:
I confirmed that using this new option, a ...
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submit two file input fields in the same form
I have a form which has two file input fields, each input should be submitted in different metabox in custom post type, when I try to submit the form it takes only the first one and ignore the second ...
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metabox upload multiple file
I have upload multiple file metabox, my problem is I need to display all files links attached to this post inside the post editor. when i upload the files it is already saved under the media but the ...
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Adding accordion-section to custom post type edit screen
I'm trying to add accordion-style meta boxes to the edit screen of a custom post type on the right hand side beneath the "Publish" meta box.
Actually I'm kind of trying to replicate the Menu ...
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Unsaved changes in metabox inputs not detected in the block editor
I have added a custom field to the regular WP post type and added a meta box to the post editor as below (it is just an example with trivial checkbox):
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', '...
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Move Featured Image upload field into other meta box in custom post type
add_action('admin_menu', 'st_series_cpt_add_box');
function st_series_cpt_add_box() {
global $fichead_meta_box;
if( current_user_can('editor') || current_user_can('administrator') ) {
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I'm having trouble with Related Product "tax_query" 'terms' value
I have two custom page types. the first is "product" and the second is "accessories". On the product page, there is the accessories category "inputs" raleted post. Inputs ...
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How to make a complete Meta Box part of a complete Post Type?
I receive the code complete, but I don't know how to make the Post Type loads the MetaBox when creating a new Post, here is the Post Type:
if ( ! function_exists('cpt_campaign_details') ) {
// ...
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Show meta box only for default page template
I'm having an issue with one of my meta box. I want the meta box displayed only on the default page template editing page.php.
The meta box doesn't show up on the editing page.
add_action('...
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I want to create post inside custom post types
I try to make a theme for Movie Series and I want to create custom post types "Series" with make post "Episode" inside by custom field/metabox. And then url like:
domain/series/...
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Metabox repeatable fields with select options
In my dashboard admin, I have two metaboxes with repeatable fields in the same page. The first metabox has only one input value $field[tag_filter]. The second metabox has a select tag to display ...
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Grab data Metabox repeatable fields to display inside other Metabox
In the admin dashboard, I have two Metaboxes with repeatable fields inside the same page.
The first Metabox is a list of names of activities for teachers. Each activities is a row with only one input ...
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Metabox repeatable fields issue when adding second field
I have a Metabox with repeatable fields. My first input is $field[tag_filter], it works fine.
What I'm trying to do is adding a second input $field[tag_ref]. Unfortunately with the second input the ...
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Illegal string offset in PHP function
I'm creating a metabox to upload PDF files.
I have the following warning notice for this line of code: $this_file = $filearray['url'];
Warning: Illegal string offset ‘url’ in...
The complete function ...
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How to show error message in admin panel using WordPress?
I'm using WordPress and I want to add validation for the save_meta_data function and if the request isn't validated admin panel should show the error message. my code is here:
public function ...
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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
