A meta box is an element in the graphical user interface, a custom field is an extra key and value stored with a post. Most of the time the interface to change the value of a custom field is put in an extra meta box – or in the default meta box for custom fields, … Read more
I’m not 100% clear on what your question is, but hopefully this will cover it: There’s a lot of documentation of how to use AJAX in WP. I would start here: https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX In the function that you write to hook your AJAX call into, make a call to the DB to see if the user-entered … Read more
Yes, it is possible to limit the drag and drop functionality of your boxes. All one needs to do is find the right selectors for the specific boxes it wants to target. When you use $(“.meta-box-sortables”).[…] you are targeting all elements in the page with the class of meta-box-sortables. If, however, you add a custom … Read more
Users can drag and drop meta boxes and WordPress will save the order. So, in a sense, the order in which they were originally rendered does not matter. You know which one comes first because when you call add_meta_box it simply pushes your meta box’s args onto a global array called $wp_meta_boxes. Whichever call to … Read more
I did something like this once, but when you clicked on a certain category (essentially the same) It certainly isn’t a true ajax solution, it just hides and reveals the div with the settings, but It is a solution which works. You’ll definitely have to modify this for your needs, but if you have a … Read more
The box which allows slug edition under the post title is actually tied to the slug metabox. It needs it to work. So, removing the metabox will break it. The only solution, I think, would be to use javascript or css to hide it. Something like this will work: function hide_slug_box() { global $post; global … Read more
Ok, all those hipercomplex functions can be reduced to one simple command: attachment_url_to_postid You only need to parse the image url to retrieve the attachment id: <?php $attachment_id = attachment_url_to_postid( $image_url ); echo $attachment_id; ?> That’s all you need.
You should never edit the core files of WordPress. Instead you should only ever edit Plugin files and or Theme files (Plugins or Themes folder) One of the easiest was to achieve this would be via jQuery; jQuery(‘<div/>’, { id: ‘your-note’, text: ‘Add up to 5 tags…etc’ }).appendTo(‘#tagsdiv-post_tag .inner’); Save the above into a alerts.js … Read more
I’m not sure, if you already found a solution for this, but when I searched for a similar one yesterday, I found this tutorial on WPtuts very helpful. It uses radio buttons, but you can easily modify it to get it working with checkboxes as well. http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creative-coding/how-to-use-radio-buttons-with-taxonomies/
There is a filter called get_user_option_meta-box-order_{$page} where $page is the name of the post type. Just make sure that submitdiv is the last value in the array: add_filter( ‘get_user_option_meta-box-order_post’, ‘wpse25793_one_column_for_all’ ); function wpse25793_one_column_for_all( $order ) { return array( ‘normal’ => join( “,”, array( ‘postexcerpt’, ‘formatdiv’, ‘trackbacksdiv’, ‘tagsdiv-post_tag’, ‘categorydiv’, ‘postimagediv’, ‘postcustom’, ‘commentstatusdiv’, ‘slugdiv’, ‘authordiv’, ‘submitdiv’, ) … Read more