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How to save metabox value in WordPress?
Save Meta Box Value in WordPress
- $post_id – It’s required and refers to the Post ID.
- $meta_key – It’s required and refers to the name of your metadata key, that will hold the value of the metabox field in the database.
- $meta_value – It’s required, value of metadata.
What is metabox in WordPress?
A post meta box is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way.
What is WordPress custom fields?
Custom fields are a somewhat more advanced WordPress feature, which lets you add extra information to certain posts. That information is called ‘metadata. ‘ Custom fields and metadata are of particular use to developers, who can use them to extend posts with all sorts of coding.
How do I Save my Metabox in PHP?
So back to our code, to save the value of my custom metabox’s field, I will use the update_post_meta function along with save_post hook. Copy the code below and add this into your theme’s functions.php file. This code will save the metabox value in the database.
How to get the meta box value in WordPress?
$meta_key – the name of the meta key to retrieve data. $single – It accepts true or false. If true then, it will retrieve the first or single value of the specified meta key. So back to our code, I will use this function to get the value of my custom metabox fields.
How to add Metabox for custom post type?
If you want to add metabox for the custom post type then you can set $screen = ‘your_custom_post_type_name’ If you want to add metabox in multiple screen then you can pass the screens in an array like array (‘post’, ‘page’, ‘custom_post_type’)
How do I add Metabox to multiple screens?
If you want to add metabox in multiple screen then you can pass the screens in an array like array (‘post’, ‘page’, ‘custom_post_type’) If you have created a new screen by using add_menu_page () or add_submenu_page () then you can use the menu slug for the screen. $context – Where the metabox should display in that particular screen.