get_post_meta() function works In and Outside of the loop and you saying that you do see it working on a single image “but doesn’t in loop” means that you probably did not add the code to the right loop. To be clear It works with all posts types.
You are missing the declaration of the HTML select tag which options are his children so just add something like this: function myplugin_inner_custom_box() { // Use nonce for verification wp_nonce_field( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ), ‘myplugin_noncename’ ); // The actual fields for data entry echo ‘<label for=”myplugin_new_field”>’; _e(“Description for this field”, ‘myplugin_textdomain’ ); echo ‘</label> ‘; echo … Read more
<?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘your_metabox_id’, true) ) : ?> <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘your_metabox_id’, true) ?> <?php endif; ?> The trick is to use get_post_meta hook
To save post meta fields from custom meta boxes you need to hook into save_post with something like this: add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘myplugin_save_postdata’ ); There is some full example code on adding meta boxes on the codex Function Reference/add meta box
I suggest to use WP Alchemy Metabox. What you are looking for is the have_fields_and_multi.
To are still call database inside the by get_post_meta() where you already have the values in $custom_fields variable. Try something like this: <?php $custom_fields = get_post_custom($post->ID); for ($i = 1; $i <= 4; $i++) { if(isset($custom_fields[“rw_location_$i”][0])){ if($i==1){ echo ‘<h1>’;} else {echo ‘<h2>’;} echo $custom_fields[“rw_location_$i”][0] if($i==1) {echo ‘</h1>’; }else {echo ‘</h2>’}; } } ?> If I … Read more
not sure what you are doing wrong, your code looks ok at first glance … make sure you represent yes and no as string values … if ( ‘yes’ == $provenance_mb->get_the_value( ‘docposs’ ) ) { echo “If you wish to make”; } else if ( ‘no’ == $provenance_mb->get_the_value( ‘docposs’ ) ) { echo “an apple … Read more
You’re talking about the format setting which was introduced in WP 3.1 for the posts post type? No, I don’t think this is possible. To remove the title-, editor- or any other metabox, you have to remove the support for this feature from the current post type. (e.g. remove the feature from the supports parameter … Read more
You should be able to do something like this: add_action(“manage_posts_custom_column”, “my_custom_columns”); add_filter(“manage_edit-[POSTTYPE]_columns”, “my_new_columns”); function my_new_columns($columns) { $columns = array( “image” => “Image” ); return $columns; } function my_custom_columns($column) { global $post; if (“ID” == $column) echo $post->ID; elseif (“image” == $column) echo ‘default_value’; } Then you should be able to use $tax_term->image to show it. … Read more
I’ve accomplished this using the WPAlchemy library. Might not meet completely your “do it myself” requirement, but the functionality is there and you can tweak it to accomplish a lot without having to code everything from scratch.