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How to make MB Group work with better-include.php

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  • February 28, 2015 at 1:09 AM #510
    oquezadaoquezada
    Participant

    How does one get to use MB Group or MB Tabs with better-include.php

    global $meta_boxes;

$meta_boxes = array();

$meta_boxes[] = array(
	'title'  => __( 'Meta Box Title', 'meta-box' ),
	'fields' => array(
		array(
			'name' => __( 'Your images', 'meta-box' ),
			'id'   => "{$prefix}img",
			'type' => 'plupload_image',
		),
	),
	'only_on'    => array(
		'id'       => array( 1, 2 ),
		// 'slug'  => array( 'news', 'blog' ),
		'template' => array( 'fullwidth.php', 'simple.php' ),
		'parent'   => array( 10 )
	),
);
    March 3, 2015 at 11:55 PM #519
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    The better-include.php only add conditions to show/hide whole meta box for a specific page, so it doesn't affect Group extension. Just define groups as normally, nothing changed.

    March 4, 2015 at 1:00 AM #522
    oquezadaoquezada
    Participant

    So is there a way to add conditions to show/hide "Group extension" for a specific page?

    March 4, 2015 at 8:28 AM #525
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    I think there is a misunderstanding here:

    - The Group extension is just one kind of field (special one), it acts exactly like other field type like text, file, etc.
    - The techniques to show/hide meta boxes are applied for meta boxes only, not for fields, so they're not applied to groups.

    But you can do a tricky way like this to achieve what you want:

    - Create a meta box
    - In that meta box, define only 1 group and put all fields under this group
    - Use techniques above to hide whole meta box

    Because this meta box contains only 1 group, show/hide this meta box actually show/hide this group.

    Hope that helps. If you need anything, please let me know.

    Thanks

    March 5, 2015 at 11:01 PM #542
    oquezadaoquezada
    Participant

    do you have an example of how to code this, so i can get an idea to accomplish this?

    March 6, 2015 at 11:37 AM #545
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    No problem, it's quite straight forward. Try this code:

    https://gist.github.com/rilwis/423be7e4c38d14c09642

    March 7, 2015 at 1:53 AM #552
    oquezadaoquezada
    Participant

    That's what I did, but apparently it seems not to be working for the Group/Tabs, it display on very page and I only want it to appear on the page templates that use "page-homepage.php". This is what i have coded.

    https://ghostbin.com/paste/pejda

    March 7, 2015 at 10:26 PM #558
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    Unfortunately the better-include.php method uses old way to register meta boxes (via admin_init hook). This way still works, but you can not use it with rwmb_meta_boxes filter, e.g. if you register meta boxes with rwmb_meta_boxes filter, you can't use better-include.php method.

    I'd suggest you use only global $meta_boxes variable to register meta boxes, and remove code to register meta boxes via rwmb_meta_boxes filter.

    A better solution is using MB Include Exclude extension, which is tested with Group extension.

    March 10, 2015 at 11:17 AM #565
    oquezadaoquezada
    Participant

    Ok, if I buy the MB Include Exclude extension, which is tested with Group extension. Do you have a example how to go about use it with Group and Tab extension to display it only on particulate Page Templates?

    March 10, 2015 at 3:11 PM #566
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    The example is well-written in the extension documentation. All you need is just add include or exclude parameter to meta box definition, no need to add custom function for checking like better-include demo.

    March 12, 2015 at 1:24 AM #586
    oquezadaoquezada
    Participant

    Awesome it works with the MB Include Exclude extension, thanks!!!!

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