Meta Box

Oh, I see. The problem is you missed the fields parameter for group field. You have to do like this:

'fields' => array(
    array(
        'id' => 'group',
        'type' => 'group',
        'fields' => array( // you missed this parameter for group
            array(...),
            array(...),
        ),
    ),
),

Are you using get_post_custom to get post meta? Because from what you said, it looks like you display fields in the backend in one order and display fields in the frontend in another order, and as we don't have a function to list all fields in the frontend, the only way to do that I guess is get_post_custom function.

If so, I'm afraid there's no way to achieve that. The order you register fields = the order fields are displayed in the backend = the order WP processes data and stores in the DB = the order you get with get_post_custom.

Or maybe you should do something like array_reverse as a trick before displaying fields in the frontend?

All you need to do is moving the array of the latest field to the first place in the fields array, something like in this screenshot:

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.

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

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

Hi eisenrith,

The MB Builder plugin helps you to create meta boxes and custom fields for posts in the back-end faster than traditional way (traditional way is registering via PHP code as described in this docs and this docs).

This extension doesn't mean to show meta values in the frontend. To do that, you need to use a helper PHP function rwmb_meta() to retrieve meta value and display it. Please follow this detailed instruction and if you need any help, please let me know.

Thanks

So it's solved now?

If you need me for anything, please let me know.

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