Comments on: Creating User Friendly Custom Fields by Modifying the Post Page

By: Rogerio

Rogerio — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:17:55 +0000

I discovered that after an error caused by a php all the data in the Custom Fields went blank again, just as the plugin was first activated… Any tips?

By: Rogerio

Rogerio — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:41:33 +0000

Hi, Peter, almost a year later and here I am with this subject again. It’s because something odd just happened. I don’t know why but all the data from the custom fields were gone forever to blank. Would you by any chance be kind to just take a quick look on the code? It must be something very fool of mine but I just can’t find out…

http://pastie.org/888229

I can’t thank you enough.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:19:32 +0000

Hello, I am trying to add a page to my website that would allow visitors to post things like their name and school, and have this info to post right away…

Do you know where I can get this info????????

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:03:25 +0000

Very cool Havard – I noticed in the core that if the meta value is an array, it won’t be displayed, but I had no idea you could do it this way as well. Thanks for the tip!

By: Håvard Fossli

Håvard Fossli — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:21:29 +0000

a good tip.
if you don’t like that the meta is automatically retrieved in the postedior then set the meta_key with underscore as prefix (“_metakeyname”) and it is not visible.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:21:31 +0000

Hey Rogerio –

The CSS disappearing is no accident – read about it here: Annual CSS Naked Day. Should be back to normal after tomorrow.

Thanks!

By: Rogério Madureira

Rogério Madureira — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:13:51 +0000

I guess the css of the site is not loading…

By: Rogério Madureira

Rogério Madureira — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:56:29 +0000

Have you ever tried pastie.org? I found it the best solution for pasting the code on the net.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:24:11 +0000

Thanks Rogério –
I have an enormous amount of trouble getting source code to format properly: blocks of php were being removed from my code. Hopefully I’ll get better at it soon.

In the meantime, I’ve updated the code, and tested the posted version – it should be working now.

Thanks for the reference you posted – should be a great resource for anyone who needs more help with this.

By: Rogério Madureira

Rogério Madureira — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:25:07 +0000

Peter, thank you for you prompt reply.

It looks there’s a missing “

The explanation about “add meta box function” in the Wordpress Codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box
is much more complicated, though there is a security verification we are not doing.

Well, I have changed your code a bit in order to achieve my needs and added all reference I could find about the needed functions: http://pastie.org/440128

Once more, thank you.