add_meta_box has a the following placement parameters: $context ‘normal’, ‘advanced’, ‘side’ $priority ‘high’, ‘core’, ‘default’ ‘low’ For $context the difference between normal and advanced is that normal will be placed on the page before advanced. The $priority determines the hierarchy but is overridden when dragged by the user. You can disable the drag and drop … Read more
You should hook onto the save_post action. add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘add_video_taxonomy’ ); function add_video_taxonomy( $post_id ) { // you should check if the current user can do this, probably against publish_posts // you should also have a nonce check here as well if( get_post_meta( $post_id, ‘video_url’, true ) ) { wp_set_post_terms( $post_id, ‘video’, ‘your_custom_taxonomy_name’, true ); … Read more
edit.php is the post/page list, the post creation/editing screen are 2 separate files: post-new.php and post.php. so you can target using “load-$page” hook, e.g.: add_action( ‘load-post.php’, function() { // add metabox or whatever you want when EDITING post add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘myplugin_meta_box_editing’ ); } ); add_action( ‘load-post-new.php’, function() { // add metabox or whatever you want … Read more
There is no way, at least to my knowledge to unset an option from the screen options panel without unsetting the actual metabox itself. My suggestion would be to target these screen options item via your CSS and hide it from view. Add this to your plugin or functions file. Don’t forget to update ‘METABOXIDNAME’ … Read more
Leverage Functions You can extract the redundant code into reusable functions. For example, the last two functions could be rewritten like this. My resulting code is actually 2 lines longer, but it’s much cleaner from a debugging standpoint. And, if there were a third custom field, this approach would definitely be shorter. function slidestoshow_save_post_meta_box( $post_id, … Read more
Change your form as suggested: function startdate() { global $post; $custom = get_post_custom($post->ID); echo “<label>Startdates</label><br/>”; for ($i=0; $i<count($custom[“startdate”]);$i++) { echo “<input type=\”text\” name=\”startdate[“.$i.”]\” value=\””.$custom[“startdate”][$i].”\” />”; } } You’ll have to remove and reinstate your individual postmeta entries: add_action(‘save_post’, ‘save_details’); function save_details($post_id) { if ($parent_id = wp_is_post_revision($post_id)) $post_id = $parent_id; if (!empty($_POST[‘startdate’]) && is_array($_POST[‘startdate’])) { delete_post_meta($post_id, … Read more
Here is an answer how to modify the css classes of metaboxes. I would not remove the postbox class, because it is needed to open and close the metabox. But you can attach your own css class to style the metabox and the following html elements. But you have to modify every single metabox, there … Read more
Change advanced to normal, this will at least move it up above some others. However, there’s no guarantee you get the top spot, because a user can still drag and drop metaboxes around, or a core metabox or one added by another plugin might believe it is more important than yours. There’s no way for … Read more
You could setup a different default layout by hooking into do_meta_boxes, take a look here: How to change default position of WP meta boxes? Or you could use the global variable $wp_meta_boxes to do so: Get List of Registered Meta Boxes and Removing Them How to Remove Certain Screen Options and Meta Boxes from add/edit … Read more
There is a plugin for that here, but I have issues with it. I use it to search for product categories, of which I have over 6,200. I would guesstimate that it fails to find the category(ies) I’m searching for about 30% of the time. Also, it isn’t verified to be completely successful with the … Read more