You could also use Advanced Custom Fields Plugin. It allows you to create whatever type of field you wish, and then adds it to posts or pages (or both). After that, it is pretty simple to call within the wordpress loop.
As you may have noticed from the notes at the top of that page, you may want to consider using WPAlchemy Meta Box for creating your meta boxes instead as it would make your dev a lot easier.
you can do that as long as <!–This is where I would call my plugin interface–> outputs the HTML form fields.
Check the metabox global directly? $wp_meta_boxes[‘YOURTYPE’] should hold data on metaboxes for a given type. Had a quick look in wp-admin/includes/template.php but i can’t see any convenience functions for extracting metabox information from the array so you’ll probably need to create your own code to loop over or extract the necessary info from it. Of … Read more
You can call registered sidebars with the dynamic_sidebar() function. Just put the ID of the sidebar in to the call. In the case below the id would be homepage-sidebar. <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘homepage-sidebar’) ) : ?><?php endif; ?>
Modify your array definition with something like this to add a new element of the array that specify the type of the field “project_overview” => array( “name” => “project_overview”, “title” => “Overview”, “description” => “Write an overview of the project.”, “type”=>”textarea”) Then in your code substitute <input type=”text” name=”<?php echo $meta_box[ ‘name’ ]; ?>” value=”<?php … Read more
If you’re talking about on post pages in admin, couldn’t you just grab id from url? $post_id = $_REQUEST[‘post’];
I’m not sure I understand the whole process. Why not build the navigation at the same time you parse out the content with the shortcodes? You know how many tabs there are and what content they’re connected to, I don’t see why widgets or wp menus need to be involved. Maybe if you showed us … Read more
Thanks to @goldenapples and @kaiser for their guidance. Apparently (for some odd reason) i had two terms registered with post-format-video. Im not sure if the following can be a viable solution to the problem, but i fired up Workbench and deleted both rows in the wp_terms table. I then reloaded the local site, created a … Read more
use do_shortcode() on your meta box content: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode