I would seriously consider looking into the WPAlchemy metaboxes class. It does exactly what you are after and so much more. http://www.farinspace.com/wpalchemy-metabox/#have_fields_and_multi This class is so great that I am frankly shocked that there is not a lot more discussion about it. *If there is a better metabox class, I’d love to hear about it, … Read more
try the Relevanssi plugin.
In his answer , Jan Fabry made a brilliant solution, but it saves the values one by one (for each his own field ) for your question, we need to “reverse” that , but it is actually easy . BEFORE lines 409-413 , Jan Fabry made an if-else clause to seperate values into fields and … Read more
Add this to your functions file and it will kill the metabox toggles: function kill_postbox(){ global $wp_scripts; $footer_scripts = $wp_scripts->in_footer; foreach($footer_scripts as $key => $script){ if(‘postbox’ === $script) unset($wp_scripts->in_footer[$key]); } } add_action(‘admin_footer’, ‘kill_postbox’, 1);
Never really thought about it, but it should indeed be a good option. The date picker is called from wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php (line 183) as: <div id=”timestampdiv” class=”hide-if-js”><?php touch_time(($action == ‘edit’),1,4); ?></div> and touch_time() is defined in wp-admin/includes/template.php (line 550) as: /** * {@internal Missing Short Description}} * * @since 0.71 * * @param unknown_type $edit * … Read more
This will create a metabox for you to enter a video code. //Creating a MetaBox for Posts to enter Video Code. add_action(‘add_meta_boxes’,’video_meta_box’); function video_meta_box(){ add_meta_box(‘video_box_id’, ‘Enter Video ‘ , ‘video_box_cb’,’post’,’normal’,’default’); } function video_box_cb($post){ $value = get_post_meta($post->ID,’video_box’,true); echo ‘<textarea rows=”4″ cols=”50″ id=”video_box”, name=”video_box”>’; echo $value; echo ‘</textarea>’; } add_action(‘save_post’,’save_video_box’); function save_video_box($post_id){ $box_data = $_POST[‘video_box’]; update_post_meta($post_id,’video_box’,$box_data); } … Read more
I have rethought the problem: Finally, I resolve it with save_post hook: function enhanced_portfolio_categories_save_post(){ $terminos = array(); foreach ($_POST[‘my_categories’] as $key) { $custom_tax = get_term_by(‘term_id’, $key, ‘portfolio_categories’); array_push($terminos, $custom_tax->term_id); } wp_set_object_terms( $_POST[‘post_ID’], $terminos, ‘portfolio_categories’); }
Dashboard widgets only go on the dashboard. You can’t put ’em on any other pages, as far as I know. For a primer on plugin options, see the codex article on creating plugin options pages. Is there any reason you need to add a widget-style meta box in your settings page? Are you after the … Read more
From your comment, it sounds like you don’t want a metabox. A metabox is used to add metadata to a particular post, not create a new post from scratch. What it sounds like you want to do is create a widget to do what you want and then invoke it through an action or filter … Read more
Awesome – I got it working! Thanks everybody for your help and comments. Turns out the function had a problem because it was taking the $data in, but never returning it, because I had “return $data” in my if statement! Another problem was with the “WPSearch 2″ plugin”, it was breaking my “New Post” functionality … Read more