WP-Metabox

A lightweight framework for creating custom post meta, metaboxes and custom content types in WordPress.

WP-Metabox can be used to create and extend custom postmeta types, custom metaboxes, and custom content types. Comment out the examples.php include in wp-metabox.php to see the examples in action on your WordPress site.

Custom Post Meta

# creates a new post meta type named 'custom-post-meta' on posts
$foo = new WP_PostMeta( 'custom-post-meta', array( 'type' => 'text' );

# displays post meta in your theme template file
echo get_post_meta( $post_id, 'custom-post-meta', true);

WP_PostMeta handles admin ui and saving post meta for the following input types:

• Text input
• URL sanitized text
• Numbers
• Dropdowns
• Radio buttons
• Checkboxes
• Textareas
• Dates (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
• Media & images (using the WordPress media uploader)
• Ordered lists (with drag n drop)

Custom Metaboxes

# creates a simple metabox on posts of an ordered list of items
$foo = new WP_SimpleMetabox(
    'custom-metabox',
    WP_PostMetaFactory::get_instance(),
    array(
        'label' => __( 'Custom Metabox' ),
        'posttype' => 'post',
        'type' => 'ordered-list'
    )
);

WP_SimpleMetabox can be used to create metaboxes with one post meta type.

WP_Metabox can also be extended with multiple post meta options. Check out the examples.php for example custom metaboxes and post meta types.

Custom Content Types

# creates a basic custom content type
$foo = new WP_ContentType( 'foo' , array( 'singular' => 'Content Type Name' ) );

WP_ContentType helps create custom content types. It will register the post type using some default arguments and can be overridden as necessary.