Meta Box

Hi,

I think it's a general WordPress question than specifically for Meta Box.

These are the steps I'm thinking of (it requires some coding, though):

• Make a cron job in WordPress.
• In each run, get posts that have a specific status and were published before 30 days.
• Change their status.

Please try these solutions:

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/109804/2051
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/134916/2051 (note that in this answer, there's a check for post type of the being deleted post).

You can also do some search on Google with the term like "wordpress delete attachments when delete post". This is how I found these answers.

Hi Brian,

Solution 1: adding a text field for file name.

You can do that by adding a text field into your meta box, or wrap the file_advanced and text field into a group, whatever convenient for you.

Then outputting the file using code like below (this is for the case when the file and the text field are not in a group):

$file = rwmb_meta( 'my_file' );
$file = empty( $file ) ? null : reset( $file ); // Just get the first file.
$title = rwmb_meta( 'my_file_title' );
if ( is_array( $file ) ) {
    echo "<a href='{$file['url']}'>{$title}</a>";
}

If they're in a group, then you can do like this:

$group = rwmb_meta( 'my_file_group' );
$file_ids = isset( $group['file'] ) ? $group['file'] : null;
$file_id = empty( $file_ids ) ? null : reset( $file_id );
$file = RWMB_File_Field::file_info( $file_id );
$title = isset( $group['title'] ) ? $group['title'] : '';
if ( is_array( $file ) ) {
    echo "<a href='{$file['url']}'>{$title}</a>";
}

Solution 2: using a page builder

If you use a page builder, like VC or Beaver Builder, you need to fetch the data of the file to use in the plugin. Meta Box stores attachment ID, not file URL.

A quick solution for that is writing a shortcode to get file URL from the field, like this:

add_shortcode( 'your_file_url', function( $atts ) {
    $file = rwmb_meta( 'my_file' );
    $file = empty( $file ) ? null : reset( $file );

    return empty( $file ) ? '' : wp_get_attachment_url( $file );
} );

And use shortcode [your_file_url] in your page builder module to get the file URL.

Hi Dave,

It's normal. Since when you have multiple clones, it's impossible to know which clone is affected by the value of the selected field.

Fixed in the version 1.3.0. I see that we don't need the user_id parameter at all, since the form is only for the current user.

Hi, all you need is just adding edit=true to the shortcode. The edit option is added in version 1.5.0.

What do you mean "as a filter"?