From the looks of things, your safest bet and easiest route would be to fork the More Fields plugin specifically for your use. The two biggest features I can see your fork needing are a field “factory” and a drag-and-drop interface. Multiple Fields My suggestion would be to look at the WordPress Widget class and … Read more
You can remove the default meta boxes with remove_meta_box and re-add them in a different position with add_meta_box: add_action(‘do_meta_boxes’, ‘wpse33063_move_meta_box’); function wpse33063_move_meta_box(){ remove_meta_box( ‘postimagediv’, ‘post’, ‘side’ ); add_meta_box(‘postimagediv’, __(‘Featured Image’), ‘post_thumbnail_meta_box’, ‘post’, ‘normal’, ‘high’); } This will remove it from the side column and add it to the main column. change post in this example … Read more
The functionality you want may be built from scratch but definitely a custom fields plugin will make your life much easier. I use Advanced Custom Fields, and it gives amazing results and the possibilities are endless. I haven’t used this one, but it seems pretty good too.
Edit: 12/09/2017 See this answer for a more up to date solution to this: How to use taxonomies on attachments with the new Media Library? I’m going to answer my own question here as I have managed to figure out a solution to what I’ve been trying to do. I came to the conclusion that … Read more
I would recommend so. You do (and should) have your own nonce with which to check the origin of the data and the intent of the user. If you have just one nonce for a metabox – then you run into problems if that metabox is removed (not the same as hidden). If removed the … Read more
See this media uploader skeleton. You can also use it in your custom markup, like Meta Box. A hint, check, that you only use the scripts on the page, where you active your Meta Box. Otherwise is it often a problem on the default pages and the uploader. Now a attempt to clear the important … Read more
I had the same problem, and Google lead me here. Unfortunately none of these answers helped, but I ultimately figured out the answer, and it’s quite easy! First, enqueue a JavaScript file (I won’t rehash this process; there are many tutorials that can describe this process better than I). I hooked into admin_enqueue_scripts, and it … Read more
If you are manually registering your custom taxonomy via register_taxonomy then you can pass in arguments to control where the metabox appears. In the example below setting show_ui to false would completely remove the metabox from the edit screen, the quick edit screen, and the admin menu. But if you set show_ui to true you … Read more
meta_query is an array of meta clauses. For example: $q = new WP_Query( array( ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, array( ‘key’ => ‘state’, ‘value’ => ‘Wisconsin’, ), array( ‘key’ => ‘city’, ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’, ), ), ) ); You can use an associative array, with a key for each meta clause: $q = new … Read more
You can do this by hand, but WP natively does it like this for settings errors: add_settings_error() to create message. Then set_transient(‘settings_errors’, get_settings_errors(), 30); settings_errors() in admin_notices hook to display (will need to hook for non-settings screens).