dan-gaia

the wp_postmeta table looks like this:

meta_id | post_id | meta_key | meta_value

so a custom meta field’s key would be found under the meta_key column (if that make sense). If you are not seeing any calls to add_meta_box check and see if your theme has the ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) plugin installed. If this is the case the custom meta is probably being register via ACF’s admin area and thus will not be found in the code of the theme.

If ACF is not installed check for any other plugins that may be doing something similar like that pods plugin.

Hope this helps.

Hi There, post meta is generally specific to each post type though you could use the same function and register it multiple times to different post types. here are some decent articles if you want to hand code them (and deal with saving the data) yourself

https://wptips.me/add-meta-box-custom-post-type/
https://wptheming.com/2010/08/custom-metabox-for-post-type/

While that will technically work I am guessing that ‘education level’ may be either a taxonomy or custom html select input. In either case I would recommend using a plugin to help register these for you.

either of the following would be a good helper plugin which allow you to keep the code for you meta boxes in your theme (both are free)

https://github.com/alleyinteractive/wordpress-fieldmanager
— installing https://github.com/alleyinteractive/fieldmanager-demos as well will register a bunch of example post type will all the fields and functionality the plugin offers

or

https://github.com/WebDevStudios/CMB2

@ajamm – thanks for the support, I am not planning on adding any s2memeber compatibility at the moment but if the requests continue I will certainly consider it.

reverting to 5.4 did not fix change anything. also the submenu is doing this as well…https://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=19fed5b

wp core settings are saving just fine, I was referring to other EM settings. I am reverting to 5.4 now to see if that version will work for the time being.

follow up…

• all plugins are deactived
• wp version 3.6
• switched theme to 2013
• yes I am clicking the save button not simply pressing enter
• fields in question are dbem_date_format and dbem_date_format_js
• other options do not seem to be saving either
• turning debug mode on spits out A LOT of strict standard warnings – all seem to be related to events manager

second question…does your primary site (https://entertainment-shack.co.uk/) have a page (or custom post type) with the slug or title of ‘tech’

Hi there, just wondering if you are running a caching plugin on these sites, and if so, are your logged in while refreshing and then seeing the menu update.

If you are running a caching plugin try disabling it and let us know if the problem continues. If you are not running a caching plugin please let us know that as well.

Hi unreal973,

thanks for the feedback. I left out “posts, media, and CPTs” as I see this being used for “editors” who will be managing the content of the site and need access to those areas. It still uses the default WP capabilities for all user levels as well.

SVN issue resolved

I ran into this working locally (WAMP). I had a space in the directory name. Removed the space, updated the database and all was good!

any solutions for this yet? I like the plug in, it works fine with the native WP widgets but not for anything else I install (tried on two different ‘custom’ twenty eleven themes). Running WP 3.3.1. Thanks