Hi steve, thanks for taking the time to write the code. I think it makes sense to an extent (the problem is also my limited understanding of PHP at this stage as I literally just started with it) in any case, I will apply the code you gave me and see how I get on with it, i’ll post back if I get seriously stuck!
thanks again

Very nice of you, I’ll see how I get on. One more question of a more general nature about the plugin if I may. As you gathered from my previous question, allowing user to add functional markup without knowing any HTML from the backend, is one of the main reasons why I downloaded the plugin. I’ll also need users to be able to change things like CSS styles (using always the same method of selecting/deselecting boxes/radio buttons at the backend)and perhaphs, if possible, make some changes to jquery functionalities, like er, change the speed of animations etc. Does this plugin allow this?
thanks

Hi Steve, I’ve just implemented your solution, and I do get the select box with the add/remove buttons as per screenshot http://s1.postimg.org/qxcifziz3/wordpress_backend.png but I don’t seem to be able to add any div to the editor. Here is the code:
my-fields.php

<?php
/*
Title: My Metabox
Description: My cool new metabox
Post Type: page

*/
 
// Let's create a text box field
piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'select'
	,'field' => 'my_divs'
	,'label' => __('Select a Div')
	,'add_more' => true
	,'choices' => array(
		'div_one' => 'Div One'		
	)
)

custom-div-div_one.php

<?php
	<div class="infoBox one"></div>

?>

test-templ.php

<?php /* Template Name: New Test page*/ ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php 
	$my_divs = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'my_divs'); // Get the field data

	foreach ($my_divs as $my_div => $name) // loop through each add_more
	{ 
		get_template_part('custom-div', $name); // display the template
	}
?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Am I missing something, shouldn’t the plugin take care of that of do I have to write the code?
thanks
A

Ah, apologies for that. I’ve made the changes, but still nothing, in the sense that I can add and remove divs at the back end, but I can’t get the divs to appear dynamically (when I add one for example) in the text editor. Happy to zip up everything if it is easier, whatever you think it’s best.
cheers

well, both, sorry maybe I didn’t explain things correctly.
Basically I wanted to add, at the backend, the functionality to allow me to add HTML tags to the front end by using select boxes etc. So, say, I want to have two divs to be added to his page: I’ll use a select box (which I have added to the backend using this plugin) to allow me to add one or more divs to the text editor at the backend, and when I click “update” these divs will be added onto the page (front end).

If you look at my screenshot here http://s1.postimg.org/qxcifziz3/wordpress_backend.png you’ll see the select boxes just below the text editor: when I’m happy with the number of divs I want to add to my page, there will be a mechanism – an “Add” button perhaps – that if pressed will add the number of specified divs to the text editor and consequently to the actual page.

In essence I want to use this plugin to customize the back end so that an hypothetical user, who knows no HTML, will be able to rely on my customization (select boxes and whatever else) to add code to his page, allowing wordpress to act as a proper CMS.
I hope it is clearer now, and sorry if it wasn’t before.

Thanks Steve, I tried that,but it breaks my text editor, in that the tool bar that is supposed to appear on the top of the text editor has disappeared and the text I type in it is invisible, here is a screenshot http://postimg.org/image/m7mx5hnvv/

I hope what I said made some sense Steve, that’s how I envisaged to use the plugin, but obviously I don’t know whether it will allow me to customize the backend in the way described. I mean adding select boxes, radio buttons etc is exactly what I need, but I have to have the possibility to make them do something – mainly allow users to add content to the front end pages, a bit like drupal I presume

I think the site was down yesterday, I checked the image again and it works OK now, thanks

I would have thought the metabox was there because I’ve added a metabox folder inside the pklist folder in my theme, as per the tutorial. Aside from that, does it make sense what I’m trying to achieve with this plugin?

Ah, OK cool, I will do in a few days as I’m away now
thanks