Meta Box

Hi Reinhard,

Unfortunately, the plugins don't support creating dashboard widgets. Please follow this docs to do so:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API
https://www.cssigniter.com/make-wordpress-dashboard-widget/
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/adding-custom-widgets-to-the-wordpress-admin-dashboard/

If you're using Elementor, here is a good tutorial on doing that:

https://powerpackelements.com/custom-wordpress-dashboard-elementor/

Hi Neil,

But I was having issues when testing the form… the screen goes blank and eventually times out. Once I remove the map module, the problem goes away immediately.

Can you give more details about this? Are you testing the form in the back end or front end? Do you see any error in the console? Is the Google Maps API key correct?

Hi Sergio,

I think that can be done with an extra query to the data base:

• Make a custom query to the custom table to get the ID of the users you want to select:

global $wpdb;
$user_ids = $wpdb->get_col( "SELECT ID FROM yourtable WHERE field_1 = 'value_1'" );

• Then in your options of the user field, set the include param:

[
'type' => 'user',
'query_args' => [
    'include' => $user_ids, // get from above
],
]

Hi Dave,

Please try this script (put it in your functions.php file and go to this URL: yourdomain.com?action=migrate):

https://pastebin.com/BPXTEy6H

The idea of the script is:

• Make sure it runs only when the URL contains ?action=migrate to avoid running the script on every page load.
• Query all the posts that need to migrate the data. You should modify the query to get your correct posts.
• For each post, get the old meta value for each field. Note about the value format to see if it's an array or simple string.
• Insert the values into the new table. If the value is an array, it need to be serialized.

The script comes directly from my mind without testing, so please check it first.

Hi William,

It's necessary to check if a group has sub-values for title and image. Please try this code:

<?php
$product_colour = rwmb_meta( 'product-colour' ); // ID of the group
if ( ! empty( $product_colour ) ) {
    if ( ! empty( $product_colour['title'] ) ) {
        echo '<h3>', $product_colour['title'], '</h3>';
    }
    if ( ! empty( $product_colour['image'] ) ) {
        $image = RWMB_Image_Field::file_info( $product_colour['image'], ['size' => 'thumbnail'] );
        echo '<img src="', $image['url'], '">';
    }
}
?>

Due to the nature of group, a private key is the only way I found to store the current state of a collapsible group, especially with nested groups.

I'll make a commit for the REST API extension to strip it from the output.

Update: the fix is available in the version 1.3.4.

Hi Neil,

You can put groups inside groups without problems. Group supports nesting to unlimited levels.

However, tabs are not nesting. So you need to use only one tab style, either on top or left.

Hi,

qTranslate X plugin seems to be abandoned from its author for the last 3 years. I personally don't think it's a good option for a multilingual website. Unfortunately, we don't have an option to make Meta Box work with qTranslate X yet.