Admin meta Image Path
Unfortunately your question is still unclear after all the explanations, but based on your efforts, I guess you need to pass the image’s URL to a meta field or some sort of array. So, turning your current code into this will fix the issue: ‘img1’ => ‘<img src=”‘.get_template_directory_uri().’/inc/admin/images/layout.png” alt=”Image 1″ title=”Image 1″>’