Maybe scribu‘s Front end Editor would be an easy way to update your website if your client finds the WP admin to be “confusing and difficult“. But also bare in mind that the admin is customizable through admin themes, as well as various scripts and plugins. To cite only one plugin, try Adminimize, it will … Read more
I’ve accomplished this using the WPAlchemy library. Might not meet completely your “do it myself” requirement, but the functionality is there and you can tweak it to accomplish a lot without having to code everything from scratch.
Maby you should use the wp_editor instead? Then you have more control of the editor. An example if you have a meta box called “myfield” in the custom post type. If you want a simple editor you can do like this: echo ‘<form action=”” method=”post” target=”_blank”>’; wp_editor(‘<p>Some content</p>’, ‘myfield’ ); echo ‘<input type=”submit” value=”Submit” /></form>’; … Read more
There is a work tool set that works nice for this kind of add on, called CMB2. You can add all the fields and buttons you want as part of a metabox series. Metaboxes are what make up the admin section section of wordpress. https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmb2/ For example..a snippet: function custom_post_status() { register_post_status( ‘spam’, array( ‘label’ … Read more
The error is in you saving function where you are looking for $_POST[‘meta_box_musicreleases_linktype’] which is never set and should actually be $_POST[‘linktype’], and the use of wp_kses is not right here, if you want to validate the data and you know all of the accepted values the you can simply use in_array try: add_action( ‘save_post’, … Read more
My custom write panels won’t save data. What am I missing?
First of all, you should never use current_user_can function with roles. You should use only capabilities as params, as Codex clearly states: While checking against particular roles in place of a capability is supported in part, this practice is discouraged as it may produce unreliable results. So, if we’ve dealt with that major issue… There … Read more
This slide-out panel for picking a widget or nav menu item to add is specific to the implementations of Widgets and Nav Menus in the Customizer. There is no generic facility for adding this UI feature, so I suggest looking at Core to look at how it is implemented there to copy into your plugin. … Read more
I have a sort of “plugin library” that contains a base class for meta boxes. Basically all it contains are a bunch of methods that generate form fields and some tabbed navigation stuff that I do for meta boxes that contain a lot of stuff. This just let’s me more rapidly develop the meta box … Read more
As found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box /** * Calls the class on the post edit screen */ function call_someClass() { return new someClass(); } if ( is_admin() ) add_action( ‘load-post.php’, ‘call_someClass’ ); /** * The Class */ class someClass { const LANG = ‘some_textdomain’; public function __construct() { add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, array( &$this, ‘add_some_meta_box’ ) ); } /** … Read more