I am working on a plugin, which creates a couple of Virtual pages, and I wish these links to be available in Menu admin page, to let users have the liberty to add them as they create menus.
I want to add a Meta box in Menu administration, very similar to Page/Category meta boxes, to let users select what page to add in their menu.
Apparently, the only possible research is in the core itself.
Here, /wp-includes/nav-menu.php, we can get how to insert the meta box:
add_action('admin_init', 'so_13875144_nav_menu_meta_box');
function so_13875144_nav_menu_meta_box() {
add_meta_box(
'my-custom-nav-box',
__('Custom Box'),
'so_13875144_display_menu_custom_box',
'nav-menus',
'side',
'default'
);
}
function so_13875144_display_menu_custom_box() {
/* Not sure about this global var */
//global $_nav_menu_placeholder;
//$_nav_menu_placeholder = ( 0 > $_nav_menu_placeholder ) ? intval($_nav_menu_placeholder) - 1 : -1;
?>
<p id="menu-item-custom-box">
<label class="howto" for="custom-menu-item-custom-box">
<span><?php _e('URL'); ?></span>
<input id="custom-menu-item-custom-box" name="menu-item[<?php echo $_nav_menu_placeholder; ?>][menu-item-custom-box]" type="text" class="code menu-item-textbox" value="my text" />
</label>
</p>
<?php
}
But, the hard part, which I haven't managed to make work, is to save the value.
This is the file /wp-admin/nav-menus.php that has to be studied.
Tried to hook into the action wp_update_nav_menu, but the custom meta box input field is not being passed into $_POST.
WordPress Answers may have some hint: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/search?q=wp_update_nav_menu
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box
Use the post_type 'nav-menus'
I know I'm late to the party but just for anyone else trying to do this...
b__ is right, that is the way to get it to show on the page except it is much easier to use checkboxes than any other field because there is an inbuilt javascript function that looks for checkboxes.
All you need to do is copy the html from an existing checkbox -
<li><label class="menu-item-title"><input type="checkbox" class="menu-item-checkbox" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-object-id]" value="2"> Sample Page</label><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-db-id" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-db-id]" value="0"><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-object" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-object]" value="page"><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-parent-id" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-parent-id]" value="0"><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-type" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-type]" value="post_type"><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-title" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-title]" value="Sample Page"><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-url" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-url]" value=""><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-target" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-target]" value=""><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-attr_title" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-attr_title]" value=""><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-classes" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-classes]" value=""><input type="hidden" class="menu-item-xfn" name="menu-item[-1][menu-item-xfn]" value=""></li>
but give them each a unique ID and put your details in for the URL, title etc.
Then, add a submit button at the end to add to the menu -
<input type="submit" class="button-secondary submit-add-to-menu right" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Add to Menu'); ?>" name="YOUR NAME" id="YOUR ID" onclick="(function(){$('#THE DIV YOU HAVE PUT YOUR LIST IN').addSelectedToMenu( api.addMenuItemToBottom );})"/>
And that should add the item to the list.
This is a pretty old question but I was trying to do this today so in case it points anyone in the right direction...
I won't cover adding the meta box, as it's covered above. I'll also only cover a custom link as I haven't looked into adding a post, page, term link etc.
Just to cover the logic of how I got there...Looking at wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js, for a custom link you'll want to use window.wpNavMenu.addItemToMenu(). This ajax submits to the function wp_ajax_add_menu_item() in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php. This then submits to wp_save_nav_menu_items() in wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php. The upshot from looking at these files is that all menu items are of a post_type, taxonomy, post_type_archive or custom type.
Hook the javascript to the HTML as you wish, but if you want to submit a custom link, you need to call addItemToMenu() as follows:
var url = 'http://example.com';
var title = 'Link text';
window.wpNavMenu.addItemToMenu({
'-1': {
'menu-item-type': 'custom',
'menu-item-url': url,
'menu-item-title': title,
}
}, window.wpNavMenu.addMenuItemToBottom);
Menu item type has to be "custom" otherwise it requires info for a post, page etc. with which to associate the menu item.
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So, I got a payment plugin where some information is entered in an popup.
The popup stores the input data in a hidden input on the payment page
In payments field I got this for the hidden input:
<input type="hidden" class="" name="auth" id="auth" placeholder="" value="">
Via JS I put the value from the popup to the input hidden data, which definetly works!
Then I add an action:
add_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta', 'ccp_payment_update_order_meta' );
function ccp_payment_update_order_meta( $order_id ) {
update_post_data( $order_id, 'auth', sanitize_text_field($POST['auth']) );
}
Somehow after the submission of the checkout form the data ($POST['auth']) is empty.
Why is this happening?
How can I store the value right?
Got it sorted out. It need to be in an paragraph like that
<p class="form-row form-row-wide"><input type="hidden" ...></p>
Introduction:
At this moment I'm creating my first custom Wordpress theme. Now I succesfully created a HTML/CSS template and converted this to fit wordpress (including header.php, index.php, footer.php, functions.php, sidebar.php and page.php).
Case/Problem definition:
At my homepage (index.php), I included several div's filled with text (pure HTML and CSS). Now I want to be able to manually change this text from an admin panel in my Wordpress Back-end. I already made an extra sub-menu page in the admin panel. This page is completely blank at this moment.
In Short:
How to fill in a text form in my Wordpress admin panel and echo this out on a certain page (front-end).
Extra
Since I'm new to Wordpress, PHP and creating your own themes I'm not sure how to do this or how to search for tutorials online (I don't know the correct terminology to search).
Thanks for all the tips and advice already!
In your functions.php add the following code that is highlighted. This will add a twitterid. So anywhere in your custom theme you can call the value of the custom admin page:
add menu item:
add_action('admin_menu', 'add_global_custom_options');
Assign the custom function which will create a form.
function add_global_custom_options()
{
add_options_page('Global Custom Options', 'Global Custom Options', 'manage_options', 'functions','global_custom_options');
}
Create a Function Which Generates the Form:
<?php
function global_custom_options()
{
?>
<div class="wrap">
<h2>Global Custom Options</h2>
<form method="post" action="options.php">
<?php wp_nonce_field('update-options') ?>
<p><strong>Twitter ID:</strong><br />
<input type="text" name="twitterid" size="45" value="<?php echo get_option('twitterid'); ?>" />
</p>
<p><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Store Options" /></p>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="update" />
<input type="hidden" name="page_options" value="twitterid" />
</form>
</div>
<?php
}
?>
View your admin page. You will find a new link in your Admin Menu called “Global Custom Options”. Just enter your values in that form and you are good to go for using those values in your theme files like “get_option(‘twitterid’)”. So, in your index.php or any other theme file, you can do something like
<?php echo get_option('twitterid') ?>
and it will print whatever value is in the textbox on admin page.
Here is a link to the tutorial for reference.
I have a site that has 2 forms - a short form and a long form. If you look at http://dforbesinsuranceagency.com you'll see the short form next to the masthead photo. The long form is at http://dforbesinsuranceagency.com/request-free-insurance-quotes/
When the user hits Submit on the short form, it kicks them over to the long form page, so that part works fine. The part that gives me fits is that I need the values entered into the short form fields First Name, Last Name, Email Address and Telephone passed to their equivalent fields on the long form.
How do I do this?
This is how I am redirecting the short form to the long form (I added it to the Additional Settings section for the short form):
on_sent_ok: "location = 'http://dforbesinsuranceagency.com//request-free-insurance-quotes';"
Any help would be appreciated.
Hack, hack, hackety, hack hack hack... Without suggesting "not using a form-builder" I don't think there is an elegant solution - you can't use the other PHP method suggested without modifying the plugin itself (and that is a can of worms). I will propose a Javascript solution but there are some caveats (below):
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$('#quick-quote form:first').submit(function(){
var foo = {};
$(this).find('input[type=text], select').each(function(){
foo[$(this).attr('name')] = $(this).val();
});
document.cookie = 'formData='+JSON.stringify(foo);
});
var ff = $('#container form:first');
if(ff.length){
var data = $.parseJSON(
document.cookie.match('(^|;) ?formData=([^;]*)(;|$)')[2]
);
if(data){
for(var name in data){
ff.find('input[name='+name+'], select[name='+name+']').val(data[name]);
}
}
}
});
What this will essentially do is: on submission, store your mini-form options in a cookie. On page load it will then look for a form in the main body of the page and apply any stored cookie data.
Notes
The jQuery selectors are deliberately ambiguous to avoid any future changes in your admin panel/plugin that will likely screw with the form IDs (thus breaking the script).
I'm not faffing about pairing field/option names - for example the select box in your mini-form is named insurance-type however the matching box in the main form is named ins-type - you will have to ensure they are of the same name.
This also applies to select box values - if there is no matching value, it will be ignored (eg. some of your values in the main form have » » characters in front (and so don't match).
try this.
set the action of our first form to a php file named xyz.php
<form method="post" action="xyz.php">
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="text" name="email_address">
<input type="submit" value="Go To Step 2">
</form>
the file xyz.php will create a new form for you which in this case is your second form (the big one). Set the action of the form as required. the code of your xyz.php will look something like this.
<form method="post" action="form3.php">
<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>">
<input type="text" name="email_address" value="<?php echo $_POST['email_address']; ?>">
<input type="radio" group="membership_type" value="Free">
<input type="radio" group="membership_type" value="Normal">
<input type="radio" group="membership_type" value="Deluxe">
<input type="checkbox" name="terms_and_conditions">
<input type="submit" value="Go To Step 3">
</form>
where the input fields of the first form will already be filled with the details given by the user in the first form.
You can create the first form by yourself and let the contact form create the second form for you providing the default values using the method above.
Hope this helps!
I am trying to create a separate menu section on wordpress admin panel which will contain three pages. The pages will behave exactly like the normal wordpress pages, I just want to have a separate menu section in the admin panel. I am able to use wp_editor() to display the editor within a form. My problem is how do I get the content from the editor and how do save into the wp_post in the database? Here is the piece of code I have already come up with:
<?php
$content = '';
wp_editor('test', 'mydescription', array('textarea_name' => 'my_description', 'tinymce' => true));
?>
<p><div class="submit"><input type="submit" name="save_front_content_options" value="<?php _e('Save Changes', 'save_options') ?>" style="font-weight:bold;" /></div></p>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="save" />
</form>
If I understand correctly, you are looking for the Settings API:
Settings API tutorial.
Settings API documentation.
I have added within my WordPress 3.1 site, the following code at the bottom of my sidebar.php file:
<div id="search_box">
<form id="searchform" action="http://www.service.com/" method="get" role="search">
<input id="s" type="text" name="s" class="search" value="Search site" size="19" maxlength="80" id="white_box" onfocus="if (this.value=='Search site') this.value = ''"/>
<input id="searchsubmit" type="image" class="submit" value="submit" src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/images/search_btn.jpg" />
</form>
</div>
As I have coded this search process myself, when I place a some text within my search text box and press the "Search" button, it looks as if, is is calling the page search.php within my theme and displaying the results.
Questions:
1) where/how does it know when I press the "Search" button to go off and call search.php?
2) if possible only, how can I change it to call a different php file instead of the search.php
Thanks.
Use template filter
add_filter( 'template_include', 'template_include', 10 );
and change the template as
function template_include($template)
{
if(your condition here){
$template = get_template_directory().'/your-template.php';
}
return $template;
}
-1. All requests for a WP site go to a single page that routes them based upon specific criteria. Thus when a search is performed it knows that it is a search and directs to the search.php page.
Specifically it goes to index.php that loads wp-blog-header.php.
-2: Everything you need to know should be right here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Search_Page#Using_the_page.php
Wordpress assumes the request is a search if it sees an 's' GET variable.
You can hook into the template_redirect action (in your theme's functions.php file) and load a different template like so:
add_action('template_redirect', 'my_template_select');
function my_template_select() {
if (is_search()) {
load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/foobar.php');
exit;
}
}