Your question is focusing on the wrong thing. A metabox is just one way for a user to introduce some data. The more important question is how you should store that data in the database. You could make ‘sport’ a custom post type and connect it to models using the Posts 2 Posts plugin. Then, … Read more
Here is a complete tutorial with source files that do exactly what you want, You can upload multi images by cloning the input field and also you can preview, delete images with ajax, add multi metaboxes to multiple/different post types and more. http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/05/howto-meta-box-wordpress.html And here you can find some good information on how you call … Read more
You have chosen to tackle a hard problem for one so new to PHP. 🙂 This might get you closer to your goal: global $wpdb; if ( in_array( $pagenow, array(‘post.php’, ‘post-new.php’) ) ) { foreach (get_categories() as $category) { $cat_time = strtotime($category->cat_name); if ( $cat_time < strtotime(‘-3 days’) || $cat_time > strtotime(‘+2 months’) ) $exclude … Read more
You can hook into the sortstop event of the sortable metaboxes, and read the current state: jQuery( function( $ ) { $( ‘.meta-box-sortables’ ).bind( ‘sortstop’, function( event, ui ) { var sortData = {}; $(‘.meta-box-sortables’).each( function() { sortData[this.id.split(‘-‘)[0]] = $(this).sortable( ‘toArray’ ); } ); console.log( sortData ); } ); } ); You can also hook … Read more
Save each meta box out to a file with the code as if they were in your functions.php file. Maybe place these in a folder called meta_boxes. Then to include into your theme just include() them into your functions file <?php // all the code that your functions file contains include(“meta_boxes/meta1.php”); include(“meta_boxes/meta2.php”); include(“meta_boxes/meta3.php”); include(“meta_boxes/meta4.php”); // … Read more
I always do it with Frank Bültge’s Adminimize in Global Options, you’ll find Your Own Options in the left column you put any name for your reference in the right column you put the ID or Classes you want to hide if I’m not mistaken, you’d want to hide this #visibility.misc-pub-section,.misc-pub-section.curtime.misc-pub-section-last Here’s a reference list … Read more
try the following: $custom_admin_mb = new WPAlchemy_MetaBox(array( ‘id’ => ‘_custom_admin_meta’, ‘title’ => ‘Admin only’, ‘template’ => get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/custom/admin_meta.php’, ‘output_filter’ => ‘my_output_filter’, )); function my_output_filter() { if (current_user_can(‘administrator’)) return true; return false; }
404’s were being caused by problem with the WP Super Cache section in my .Htaccess file. Greyed out areas AND metaboxes not showing up were being caused by WordPress suddenly having a serious issue with using capitals at the start of Custom Post Type names. Why these issues suddenly came to bite me? I have … Read more
I finally found the answer to this and am posting it here in case someone else needs the answer. Just put the following in your theme file. <?php global $post; $variable_name = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘custom_metaBox’, true); echo html_entity_decode( $variable_name ); ?> Change the variable name and custom_metaBox to your specific values and voila, functioning HTML code.
Try changing your display_url_info function to <?php add_filter(‘beernews-child-theme_post’, ‘display_url_info’); function display_url_info() { // usually needed global $basic_metabox; $basic = $basic_metabox->the_meta(); if($basic[‘post_link_url’]) { echo $basic[‘post_link_url’]; } else { echo ‘ERROR : “post_link_url” empty’; } } ?> And not to be a jerk, but I would like to point out that WP Alchemy is not a plugin … Read more