Meta Box

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback. I've fixed it in the latest version of Custom Table & Term Meta. Please update. The new version for AIO is coming tomorrow.

Hi Brian,

Real quick, can’t wait for the 3rd hotel booking case study post

The technical part is done. We're finishing some details in the post and will publish it soon.

and also would be great to see a 2020 roadmap post like you did in years past

Yes, we're planning to do the same this month. Timeline is quite tight in the last couple of months :(.

Add the ability for multi select to the date field

The problem is that the jQueryUI datepicker library doesn't support selecting multiple dates. I suggest setting the date field cloneable, so you can add more dates if you want.

If you want to query them, then there are 2 options (FYI, cloneable fields save data in serialized format, which makes normal query useless):

1. Using a plugin such as SearchWP/FacetWP (we have integrations for both)
2. Using another custom field. The idea is that when saving post, you get the saved dates, and save it into another field (plain text in any format you want)

2) Combine / merge two date field outputs. If I had a “start date” and “end date” how would I merge the two so the output would look like, May 24 – 29, 2020 or May 31 – June 4, 2020? So that I could then query by date and display all dates for say “May”.

You can combine the way you want. I'd suggest using something like "2020-05-10|2020-06-01", e.g. separating dates by a special character (|, :, #, @) and format dates in a standard format (Y-m-d). That way you can query by values.

3) Make “group fields” available within the select advanced field options.

Another way to think about this issue is using the Conditional Logic extension. E.g. when you select a value in the select advanced field, then show the corresponding group.

I hope my answers give you some ideas to implement that. These are advanced (and rare) use cases, and need some creative thinking.

Hi Matt,

Do you mean “dynamic tags” just the text field with the dynamic data link right?

It's not only text field, but also image field, gallery field, etc. Wherever a dynamic data, the plugin works.

I now can’t even get the custom fields to save any data in the basic post page of WP

Can you record a video with that (maybe using https://www.loom.com)? I couldn't replicate it on my localhost.

Hi, we have the context parameter for meta boxes, which you can use to load meta boxes with priority. For meta boxes with the same context, you can try setting keys for meta boxes array, like this:

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', function( $meta_boxes ) {
    $meta_boxes['1_general'] = ...;
    $meta_boxes['2_social'] = ...;
    return $meta_boxes;
} );

Hi Dave,

I'd suggest creating a custom field type that extends the taxonomy field type. We have a documentation for that here. You can overwrite the default methods of the plugin and write your own.

Hi Robert,

am I to understand that the MB Custom fields are NOT searchable at all, unless we get FacetWP?

Yes and no.

For simple fields (non-clonable and non-groups), they're searchable using meta query of WP_Query.

For clonable fields and groups (and also fields in the custom table), the data is stored in the serialized format, which makes the meta query useless. FacetWP resolves this problem quite well.

Hi Jackky, it's not available yet as this is a new feature in Gutenberg. I'll add it to the next version of MB Blocks.

Hi Jackky,

The condition is_admin() should never be used. It prevents the fields/settings available for retrieving the data on the front end.