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Punal Chotrani
Punal Chotrani
8,817 Points
Posted by Punal Chotrani
Punal Chotrani
8,817 Points

Data not saving in a newly created custom fields in a custom post.

I have created a new custom post type "skills", and added some fields to it.

  • Fields 1: a normal text metabox
  • Field 2: a Radio buttons, which when selected should display on the frontend.

I have 2 issues. Both the data is not saving, when i hit update, and when it updates i need to save it on the front-end.

Below is the code.

function true_add_a_metabox() {
    add_meta_box(
        'true_metabox', 
        'Skill Level Percentage',
        'true_display_metabox',
        'skills',
        'normal',
                'high' 
    );
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'true_add_a_metabox' );

function true_display_metabox($post) {
    wp_nonce_field( basename( __FILE__ ), 'true_metabox_nonce' );
        $html .= '<p><label>Enter Skill % <input type="text" name="seotitle" value="' . get_post_meta($post->ID, 'true_title',true) . '" /></label></p>';

    $html .= '<p><label><input type="radio" name="noindex"';
    $html .= (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'true_noindex',true) == 'on') ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
    $html .= ' /> Expert</label></p>';
    $html .= '<p><label><input type="radio" name="noindex"';
    $html .= (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'true_noindex',true) == 'on') ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
    $html .= ' /> Proficient</label></p>';
    $html .= '<p><label><input type="radio" name="noindex"';
    $html .= (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'true_noindex',true) == 'on') ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
    $html .= ' /> Basic</label></p>';
    $html .= '<p><label><input type="radio" name="noindex"';
    $html .= (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'true_noindex',true) == 'on') ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
    $html .= ' /> Learning</label></p>';
    /*
     * print all of this
     */
    echo $html;
}

Any help with this would be great.

Thanks

2 Answers

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Punal,

Have a read through the following article as you're missing the save functionality for your custom fields as WordPress doesn't handle this automatically for us.

http://www.wproots.com/complex-meta-boxes-in-wordpress/

Punal Chotrani
Punal Chotrani
8,817 Points
Punal Chotrani
Punal Chotrani
8,817 Points

Hi Chris,

I thought as much, i had to do a save function.

Thanks for your help, great link.

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

No worries, glad you got it sorted.