As suggested by sri, I will answer my own question 🙂 The drag and drop of the meta boxes is for remembering the order of the meta boxes for each user, so if user A like to have meta box 5 on top because he uses that feature more, he doesn’t have to do move … Read more
Here’s a workaround specific for the post tags meta box. We can register a custom metabox callback for the post_tag taxonomy with: add_filter( ‘register_taxonomy_args’, function( $args, $taxonomy ) { // Replace the original (post_tag) metabox callback with our wrapper if( ‘post_tag’ === $taxonomy ) $args[‘meta_box_cb’] = ‘wpse_post_tags_meta_box’; return $args; }, 10, 2 ); where our … Read more
Thanks for the hint Bainternet, indeed this is very easy to implement with jQuery. Example (the four meta boxes are closed for clarity) : Here’s what I did : var $j = jQuery.noConflict(); $j(document).ready(function() { $j(“#side-sortables”).append(‘<div id=”container_div” class=”postbox meta-box-sortables ui-sortable”><div class=”handlediv” title=”Click to toggle.”><br></div><h3 class=”hndle”><span>Container Meta Box</span></h3><div id=”container_inside” class=”inside”></div></div>’); $j(“#my_metabox_div”).appendTo(“#container_inside”); $j(“#my_other_metabox_div”).appendTo(“#container_inside”); etc… }); I added … Read more
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I did some more research, and found this – https://wordpress.org/plugins/attachments/ It’s a great plugin that lets you attach images to the post without inserting them in the post and the images can be easily sorted with ajax, it’s also quite modifiable and just what I needed, and works on custom … Read more
Non-hierarchical taxonomies (like tags) use tagsdiv-{$tax_name}. Hierarchical taxonomies (like categories) use {$tax_name}div. This is for historical reasons: categories were placed in categorydiv, tags in tagsdiv. When support for multiple non-hierarchical taxonomies was added, the tagsdiv name was expanded to tagsdiv-{$tax_name}. When finally multiple hierarchical taxonomies were made possible, they choose to generalize categorydiv to {$tax_name}div.
When ordering or closing metaboxes, those actions require nonces, add the following to your code and see if that resolves the problem. <?php wp_nonce_field(‘closedpostboxes’, ‘closedpostboxesnonce’, false ); ?> <?php wp_nonce_field(‘meta-box-order’, ‘meta-box-order-nonce’, false ); ?> Additional: You should add metaboxes to your page using add_meta_box and output them using do_meta_boxes passing in the hook for your … Read more
This isn’t a WP question, but moreso a general form issue. Regardless, a checkbox will not pass anything if unchecked, and 1 or on if checked. // Sanitize user input. $my_data = $_POST[‘home_slider_display’] ? true : false; // Update the meta field in the database. update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘home_slider_display’, $my_data );
Just add an underscore before the metabox ID so the part of your code where you add a metabox looks something like this: $id = ‘_drama-description’; $title=”Description”; $callback = ‘drama_description_metabox_markup’; $screen = $post_type; $context=”normal”; $priority = ‘high’; $callback_args=”null”; add_meta_box($id, $title, $callback, $screen, $context, $priority, $callback_args); You also need to replace every occurance of drama-description to … Read more
That’s pretty advanced and it doesn’t sound like you are all that comfortable with WP yet, no offense. You can definitely do this with WP Alchemy (I have and do), but you really have to get down and dirty with some Javascript to 1. launch the media uploader and 2. to hijack the send to … Read more
When in doubt use the API. Let’s say the structure of $wp_meta_boxes will change or go away one day. remove_meta_box() will still work, because the API is a contract between core and developers. Unsetting some keys in a global variable might break. unset() is easier to write when you want to remove a whole group: … Read more