add_meta_box …as a checkbox

Untested:

function front_event(){
  global $post;
  $custom = get_post_custom($post->ID);
  $front_event = $custom["front_event"][0];
  if( $front_event ){ $checked = "checked=\"checked\""; }else{ $checked = "";}
  ?>
  <label>Place Event On Front Page? (type yes):</label>
  <input type="checkbox" name="front_event" value="true" <?php echo $checked; ?> />
  <?php
}

HTH

David

Hey Thanks so much! That worked great. ??

Additional question. I’m trying to pull just one post via that check box. So I made up some arguments for a query:

<?php $event =array(
		'post_type' => 'Events',
		'posts_per_page' => 1,
		'meta_key' => 'front_event',
		'meta_value' => true

		);?>

<?php query_posts($event);?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

....etc...

This usually works with just straight up custom fields in categories, but not here. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to access this information from the check box in a different manner?

Thanks again. Sorry for the questions. this is my first time using custom post types.

Nadine

I could do something like this:

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But for some reason that comes back as nothing. Suggestions?

Nadine

And of course the ghetto version doesn’t work, because its in the loop. So…anyone? Suggestions?

Check if the meta is saving true or 1, and is it a syntax error Events or events, slug lowercase or name first caps?

It should be working looking at your code, but php is case sensitive.

UNTESTED

<?php
$temp_query = $wp_query;
$wp_query = null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
    $args=array(
		'post_type' => 'events',
		'posts_per_page' => 1,
		'order' =>'DESC',
		'meta_query' => array( array( 'key' => 'front_event', 'value' => true ))
	);
    $wp_query->query( $args );
?>
<?php if ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
    <?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php $wp_query = $temp_query; ?>

David

the meta echos out as “true” from inside the loop.

the in loop one doesn’t work because in my ghetto attempt I forgot that it has to be in the query array part. I want it to display posts in custom post type AND have front_event checked.

The case is right. Maybe i have to do some kind of global query for that piece of data in front_event and then use it in a post query?

Ha!

'value' => true

changed to

'value' => 'true'

That really needs to be somewhere in the codex, also SO glad it wasn’t anything else.

It should work on any page, as you are looking for the first post type = event that has the meta value set, then getting this post returned in a query.

I cannot see an issue with this, it should be ‘outside the loop’?

This is how I use it for a ‘page of posts’, and here is a post on using it, it might help.

David

That really needs to be somewhere in the codex, also SO glad it wasn’t anything else.

I tend to load $variables and use these in the args!

Glad it is sorted, wanna mark this one resolved?

David

Yep changed! Thanks for the responses. Appreciated. ??