Lock Field Values based on Post Status
Description
Piklist allows you to lock a field value (making it read-only), when the post status changes. A perfect example of this is if you want to lock post meta once a post is published.
New to Piklist?
Before you start this tutorial:
- Install Piklist like you would any other WordPress plugin.
- Decide if you are going to add the code in this tutorial to your custom plugin or your theme. This will define how to setup your Piklist folder structure.
- If you're new to Piklist, you may want to review the "Getting Started" tutorial first. It gives you a good overview of how Piklist works.
Here’s how we do that:
Create your field the standard Piklist way. For this tutorial we will create a text box. The only difference is that you will add the [on_post_status](/fields/field-parameters
/#on-post-status) parameter. You’ll notice that it is set to show values when the post status equals publish.
piklist('field', array(
'type' => 'text'
,'field' => 'text_no'
,'label' => 'Sample field locked'
,'value' => 'Not editable'
,'help' => 'This is help text.'
,'attributes' => array(
'class' => 'text'
)
,'on_post_status' => array(
'value' => 'publish'
)
));