Meta Box

Hi,

I'm not quite clear about the question. Each post type registered with the plugin is a normal WordPress post type, which uses single-{$post_type}.php template file to display (and fallback to single.php. See WordPress docs for more details.

The URL for each post in the post type is automatically generated if you set the permalink to something different than the default.

Hi Tobias,

At the moment, the settings values are not sent to the REST API via MB REST API. You probably need to write your own route for that.

Hi, please see this video: https://www.loom.com/share/80fa3ff5dc6149a9bd2cb640a62aa69c. I demonstrate how to use rwmb_meta, rwmb_the_value in the block render callback.

Just a note: when you use these helper functions, don't forget to use the parameter $post_id. If you want to use other WordPress functions, remember to use it as well, or you'll get the wrong info when preview the block in the edit screen.

Hi guys, sorry for this bug. I've just updated the extension to 1.2.7 to fix this. Meta Box AIO & MB Core will be updated later today.

Hi,

Unfortunately, blocks can save data only to its own. The post meta allows only 1 pair of key-value, but you can add many blocks in a post. So, if that's possible, that might be confusing.

In order to use meta values in a block template, you can simple register meta fields normally with Meta Box, and use helper functions rwmb_meta to get them to show.

Hi Mark,

Glad you see it works.

Regarding the 2nd issue about creating your own panel, it's totally possible. Just create a settings page as usual, then add these params to the settings page array:

'customizer' => true,
'customizer_only' => true

And you'll have your own panel. I have written this in the docs, please take a look.

Hi, would you mind giving more details on how you setup the settings pages? The latest version has big changes, which we made to work with Customizer/Network settings. Please send me more details to debug on this. In my test with a normal settings page, I couldn't replicate the bug.

Hi Mark,

The parent param is used to specify the parent menu in the WP admin area. Setting it to themes.php make the settings page appear under "Appearance" menu.

In case of using Page Builder Framework theme, this theme doesn't have any admin settings page. All of its settings are in the Customizer. So you need to create sections and set the panel attribute to the PBF's panel's ID.

For example, the code below will create a new section in the Customize -> Blog panel:

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', function ( $meta_boxes ) {
    $meta_boxes[] = array(
        'id'             => 'my-custom-section',
        'title'          => 'Custom Section',
        'panel'          => 'blog_panel', // THIS
        'fields'         => array(
            array(
                'name' => 'Logo',
                'id'   => 'logo',
                'type' => 'file_input',
            ),
            array(
                'name'    => 'Layout',
                'id'      => 'layout',
                'type'    => 'image_select',
                'options' => array(
                    'sidebar-left'  => 'http://imgur.elightup.com/Y2sxQ2R.png',
                    'sidebar-right' => 'http://imgur.elightup.com/h7ONxhz.png',
                    'no-sidebar'    => 'http://imgur.elightup.com/m7oQKvk.png',
                ),
            ),
        ),
    );
    return $meta_boxes;
} );

And here is the result:

https://imgur.elightup.com/D7WWhYZ.png

You can change the panel parameter to put the section under other panels. Here is how to find the panel IDs:

https://imgur.elightup.com/ReUqu2l.png