WP Alchemy comes with example files that show the usage of virtually all field types; Example; <?php $mb->the_field(‘cb_single’); ?> <input type=”checkbox” name=”<?php $mb->the_name(); ?>” value=”abc”<?php $mb->the_checkbox_state(‘abc’); ?>/> https://github.com/farinspace/wpalchemy/blob/master/wp-content/themes/mytheme/metaboxes/checkbox-meta.php#L9
Phil, you will have to use the Loop and loop over all the posts from the post type you want, then with wpalchemy you can do the following (using the post ID): $sidebar_excerpt = $sidebar_excerpt_meta->the_meta( $post_ID ); See also: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
After more searching I decided to try one of the alternative methods listed in the checkbox-meta.php example file. I used a “foreach” loop instead of the “while” loop and the checkbox state is now loading properly. Here’s the updated code: <?php foreach ($items as $i => $item): ?> <?php $mb->the_field(‘t_enabled_widgets’, WPALCHEMY_FIELD_HINT_CHECKBOX_MULTI); ?> <input type=”checkbox” name=”<?php … Read more
The clue was in the original script here – line 460 of MetaBox.php has the comment “// todo: when first run define a constant to prevent other instances from running again …”. The code below fixed this issue. if(!defined(‘HEAD_CALLED’)): add_action( ‘admin_head’, array( $this, ‘_global_head’ ) ); define(‘HEAD_CALLED’, true); endif;
Okay, I solved it (again, cause this happened before but I forgot the solution!)…. This was for a custom post type and I hadn’t added a support that involved uploading something. So, I added “thumbnail” to the list of supports… ‘supports’ => array(‘title’,’author’,’thumbnail’) for my custom post and that did the trick! It’s a weird … Read more