Meta Box

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the detailed reply! Ok slowly learning. For the first two snippets you provided. I’m not using a template file. I’d like to incorporate it into a shortcode in my functions.php file and then just use the shortcode to output those added values? Is that possible / what would that look like?

Yes, of course. Here is the modified code for the 1st snippet:

add_shortcode( 'your_shortcode', function( $atts ) {
    $output = '';
    $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 ) ) {
        $output .= "<a href='{$file['url']}'>{$title}</a>";
    }
    return $output;
} );

But the link it generated was for the exact same page I was on. Not the pdf link? Not sure what went wrong there.

Can you check if the current page has PDF file in the my_file field?

Hi Christopher,

The sub-fields inside groups are not run through filters. Only the filter for the top-level group is used.

So, please use the filter of the top-level group and modify the value of the sub-fields.

Hi Sergo,

The Open Street Map field is per post. If you need to display all location of all posts on a same map, you might need to write custom code. I'll make a tutorial about that later in the blog. Stay tuned.

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.