Comments on: Add A Meta Box In WordPress

By: dustin

dustin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:39:44 +0000

Thanks so much for this tutorial!

By: Petra

Petra — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:05:17 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I tried to implement your code and seems to be working fine, only that I am getting two sets of custom fields: I get my own custom write panel with custom fields and the one that comes with WordPress. For some reason when I add a custom field in my custom write panel, it also automatically adds it into a default custom field panel, so I have two custom fields with the same name and content. Any ideas why and how to resolve this problem? I am using the latest version of WordPress.

By: Marco Berrocal

Marco Berrocal — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:02:53 +0000

Does anybody know how to loop this? Say I want to do a slider for pages with the meta box set to TRUE or something, and then I want to grab all pages or posts with that condition?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:52:02 +0000

Hi, I’ve stumbled across your code and it is the perfect solution for what I need to do but when I try putting it in to my functions.php file it gives me the following error

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /usr/var/www/localhost/htdocs/oowebsite/wp-includes/plugin.php:395) in /usr/var/www/localhost/htdocs/oowebsite/wp-admin/theme-editor.php on line 89

I’m inserting it directly at the top of the functions file to call it as early as possible, am I putting it in the wrong place? Any feeback very much obliged.

By: anuj

anuj — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:14:49 +0000

i must say that simply gr8 tip

By: Jan Fabry

Jan Fabry — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:05:03 +0000

I expanded this code with support for a group of checkboxes, in response to a question on the WordPress Stack Exchange. Feel free to use it too, or maybe integrate it in the base file!

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:12:05 +0000

Hi, I really like the way this is done. Would it be recommended to insert a custom field with keywords as well or is this not needed anymore?

By: Fighting Reality

Fighting Reality — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:10:17 +0000

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By: Rob Malon

Rob Malon — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:53:21 +0000

I was doing something like this for a while. It was a pain to manage so I did some searching. Found the Verde Meta Box plugin and found a way to convert my existing custom fields to be used in it. Its not without bugs but I’ve outlined both of these things here: http://robmalon.com/creating-wordpress-custom-field-boxes-from-existing-meta-data/

By: philip

philip — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:48:30 +0000

thanks Chris but how you call an if statement here?

i need to make a show/hide dropdown,
if is show
//get php file
else
//do nothing

thanks a lot!