masonify

Thanks for your response bc, make that plural.

This would leave me with an empty meta box, that still shows the title of the meta box, and the empty box below it which could be confusing for the user why there is nothing in the box.

I’d like to remove the whole meta box if it’s not applicable.

I’m assuming this is possible as WP codex has the remove_meta_box() function available.

any examples of an admin page that manages an array of values to add edit delete, possibly change order would be greatly appreciated, although I thank you for the direction, I just need to know I’m doing it in the most conventional way, without hacking the core.

It’s tough to learn a new system, and I’m tempted to just dive in and write a completely custom php program to hack into the page, but the whole reason I’m attempting the move to WP is because of their update system version to version, so that would be sort of counter productive.

Thanks again bcworkz, bc as in West Coast Can.?

Thanks for the poke in the right direction, that’s what I was looking for, in database terms, normalization.

I’m good with the meta box on user pages populated by an array, I’m assuming WP has a function to define new options and call those values out etc, I’ll check the codex. Thanks for the help.

I don’t want the users to be able to create new taxanomy’s

If I give them a text box, they could create a new one that is not allowed e.g. Mister when they should be selecting Mr. created by the administrator.