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    • August 5, 2015 at 6:05 pm #4154
      cosmocanuck
      Member

      Hi! I’d like to include an extra Editor field for adding a certain category of information to posts. But I can’t figure out how to display it… and it looks like there might be a typo on the user guide page for this field type (?).

      The first example given is:

      echo wpautop(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'field_name, true));

      However I notice a single quote mark before field_name in the above code, which I presume is an error (and indeed throws a PHP error if I try it).

      However when I substitute my field name, and remove the quote mark, I get the error message:

      Use of undefined constant awards – assumed ‘awards’ in /home2/vjffs122/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/genesis-sample/single-event.php on line 67

      Am I approaching this the wrong way?

    • August 5, 2015 at 10:36 pm #4156
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @cosmocanuck– Quotes need to go around the meta key:

      echo wpautop(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'field_name', true));

      I also updated the doc page to fix this typo.

      Let me know if this works for you.

    • August 6, 2015 at 7:33 pm #4165
      cosmocanuck
      Member

      Hmm, now the problem seems to be that no content in my Editor field gets saved! Yipes!

      As soon as I hit “Update” on the post… it clears out.

      Here’s the code I’m using to add the field:

      piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'editor'
    ,'scope' => 'post'
    ,'field' => 'festivalsawards'
    ,'label' => __('Festivals and Awards')
    ,'options' => array (
      'wpautop' => true
      ,'media_buttons' => false
      ,'tabindex' => ''
      ,'editor_css' => ''
      ,'editor_class' => ''
      ,'teeny' => false
      ,'dfw' => false
      ,'tinymce' => true
      ,'quicktags' => true
    )
  ));
    • August 6, 2015 at 8:22 pm #4166
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @cosmocanuck– In most instances the scope is the database table to save to. In your code, you’re setting 'scope' => 'post'. The wp_posts table only allows you to save to existing fields, not create a new one, like festivalsawards.

      My guess is that you actually want to save your data to wp_postmeta, which would be 'scope' => 'post_meta'. The only reason to set it to 'scope' => 'post' is if you wanted to replace the default editor.

      In most cases for forms in wp-admin, you don’t even have to set the scope, you can let Piklist automatically set it for you.

      Let me know if that makes sense.

    • August 7, 2015 at 11:54 am #4171
      cosmocanuck
      Member

      Thanks Steve! It does indeed make sense, and my error was in neglecting to delete that line assigning scope from the sample code on the User Guide site (which I had copied)! It’s working perfectly now.

    • August 7, 2015 at 9:39 pm #4175
      Steve
      Keymaster

      Great! Closing ticket.

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