The second group of recipe steps now produces text editor boxes that I can at least type into, which is good. But the toolbar is missing. The initial, first group of steps has perfectly functional text editor boxes.

Here’s the code for my metaboxes. It’s the “recipe_step” field within the “steps_section” group that’s giving me grief…

<?php
/*
Title: Recipe Details
Post Type: recipe
Priority: high
*/

piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'editor'
    ,'field' => 'recipe_description'
    ,'template' => 'field'
    ,'label' => __('Description')
    ,'description' => __('Brief description/summary of the recipe')
    ,'options' => array(
		'drag_drop_upload' => 'false'
		,'tinymce' => true
		,'quicktags' => true
  		)
));

piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'text'
    ,'field' => 'recipe_serves'
    ,'label' => __('Servings')
    ,'description' => __('For example, "3-4"')
	 ,'attributes' => array(
	   'class' => 'text'
	 )
));

piklist('field', array(
   'type' => 'group'
   ,'field' => 'ingredient_section'
   ,'label' => __('Ingredients')
   ,'description' => __('Add additional Section if a recipe has separate listings for different parts, i.e. the salad and the dressing.')
   ,'add_more' => true
   ,'fields' => array(
					array(
				   'type' => 'html'
				   ,'label' => __('Ingredient section')
				   ,'columns' => 12
				   ,'value' => '<p><em><strong>Note:</strong> for consistency, please only capitalize sentences and Superior product names; otherwise keep all text lower case.</em></p>'
				   ,'attributes' => array(
					 'class' => 'recipe-subhead'
										)
					 )
				 
					 ,array(
						'type' => 'text'
						,'field' => 'ingredients_component_title'
						,'label' => __('Section Title (can be omitted for first section, or if there&rsquo;s only one)')
						,'columns' => 12
						)
				 
					 ,array(
					   'type' => 'group'
					   ,'field' => 'ingredient'
					   ,'add_more' => true
					   ,'fields' => array(
							 array(
							   'type' => 'text'
							   ,'field' => 'ingredient_qty'
							   ,'label' => __('Qty')
							   ,'columns' => 2
							 )
							 ,array(
							   'type' => 'textarea'
							   ,'field' => 'ingredient_descrip'
							   ,'label' => __('Description')
							   ,'columns' => 10
							 )
				   		)
				 )
   )
 ));
 
 piklist('field', array(
   'type' => 'group'
   ,'field' => 'steps_section'
   ,'label' => __('Steps')
   ,'description' => __('Do not add numbers to the steps; they\'ll be added automatically.')
   ,'add_more' => true  
   ,'fields' => array(
   
   
   
					array(
				   'type' => 'html'
				   ,'label' => __('Group of steps')
				   ,'columns' => 12
				   ,'value' => ''
				   ,'attributes' => array(
					 'class' => 'recipe-subhead'
										)
					 )
	
		
				 	,array(
						'type' => 'text'
						,'field' => 'steps_component_title'
						,'label' => __('Section Title (can be omitted if there&rsquo;s only one section)')
						,'columns' => 12
					)

					 ,array(
					   'type' => 'group'
					   ,'field' => 'step_group'
					   ,'add_more' => true
					   ,'fields' => array(
								array(
								'type' => 'editor'
					   			,'add_more' => true
								,'field' => 'recipe_step'
								,'options' => array (
									  'wpautop' => true
									  ,'media_buttons' => false
									  ,'tabindex' => ''
									  ,'tinymce' => true
									  ,'quicktags' => false
									  )
								)

				   		)
				)
	)

 ));

Hi Steve! I upgraded, and now I’m afraid even my “fix” (which perhaps was not reliable anyway) no longer works. New “recipe step” editor fields in a second section, come up unclickable and with no toolbar.

It’s not super critical right now for me, as most recipes, even if they have multiple ingredient groups, only have a single list of steps. But I want to of course be prepared for any eventuality! So do keep me posted, and I’ll keep upgrading and testing as I see the new versions arrive.

Yikes! The notorious “missing comma syndrome”… bane of programmers everywhere. Thanks so much, and this should really help me with issues like this in the future.

It must be one of the perils of piecemeal WP learning, but it never was evident how useful or important WP_Debug was! Though I know how important debugging tools are in principle, I’ve never used that function. That will now change.

Thanks again.

Thanks so much Steve! That’s so bizarre. Maybe special/nonstandard characters had crept into the file or something…

At least I know the code was NOT the problem, so that’s helpful. If it reoccurs, I’ll try your “solution”!

Thanks again,
adam

Oh, BTW, please could you delete my post with the Dashboard access info? I meant to set that as private… don’t want it on the forums of course.

Last but not least, as requested, here’s my final working code for the full “recipe entry” form:

<?php
/*
Title: Recipe Details
Post Type: recipe
Priority: high
*/

piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'editor'
    ,'field' => 'recipe_description'
    ,'template' => 'field'
    ,'label' => __('Description')
    ,'description' => __('Brief description/summary of the recipe')
    ,'options' => array(
		'drag_drop_upload' => 'false'
		,'tinymce' => true
		,'quicktags' => true
  		)
));

piklist('field', array(
   'type' => 'group'
   ,'field' => 'ingredient_section'
   ,'label' => __('Ingredients')
   ,'description' => __('Add additional Section if a recipe has separate listings for different parts, i.e. the salad and the dressing.')
   ,'add_more' => true
   ,'fields' => array(
					array(
				   'type' => 'html'
				   ,'label' => __('Ingredient section')
				   ,'columns' => 12
				   ,'value' => '<p><em><strong>Note:</strong> for consistency, please only capitalize sentences and Superior product names; otherwise keep all text lower case.</em></p>'
				   ,'attributes' => array(
					 'class' => 'recipe-subhead'
										)
					 )
				 
					 ,array(
						'type' => 'text'
						,'field' => 'ingredients_component_title'
						,'label' => __('Section Title (can be omitted for first section, or if there&rsquo;s only one)')
						,'columns' => 12
						)
				 
					 ,array(
					   'type' => 'group'
					   ,'field' => 'ingredient'
					   ,'add_more' => true
					   ,'fields' => array(
							 array(
							   'type' => 'text'
							   ,'field' => 'ingredient_qty'
							   ,'label' => __('Qty')
							   ,'columns' => 2
							 )
							 ,array(
							   'type' => 'textarea'
							   ,'field' => 'ingredient_descrip'
							   ,'label' => __('Description')
							   ,'columns' => 10
							 )
				   		)
				 )
   )
 ));
 
 piklist('field', array(
   'type' => 'group'
   ,'field' => 'steps_section'
   ,'label' => __('Steps')
   ,'description' => __('Do not add numbers to the steps; they\'ll be added automatically.')
   ,'add_more' => true  
   ,'fields' => array(
   
   
   
					array(
				   'type' => 'html'
				   ,'label' => __('Group of steps')
				   ,'columns' => 12
				   ,'value' => ''
				   ,'attributes' => array(
					 'class' => 'recipe-subhead'
										)
					 )
	
		
				 	,array(
						'type' => 'text'
						,'field' => 'steps_component_title'
						,'label' => __('Section Title (can be omitted if there&rsquo;s only one section)')
						,'columns' => 12
					)

					 ,array(
					   'type' => 'group'
					   ,'field' => 'ingredient'
					   ,'add_more' => true
					   ,'fields' => array(
							 array(
								'type' => 'textarea'
								,'field' => 'recipe_step'
								,'label' => __('Recipe Step')
								,'columns' => 12
								,'add_more' => true
							 )
				   		)
				)
	)

 ));

OK, this is not a panic but a real problem, hopefully just a code error but for the life of me I can’t find it!

I duplicated the same overall structure that works for the ingredients, into the instructions area. So, I can have multiple “groups” of instructions if necessary.

However, when I add multiple steps – when I save the post, each step gets wrapped in its own “group” even though I did not add any additional groups!

Here’s my code for that section, as it currently stands. Login info if you need it, is in the above post in this thread.

Thanks!

piklist('field', array(
   'type' => 'group'
   ,'field' => 'steps_section'
   ,'label' => __('Steps')
   ,'description' => __('Do not add numbers to the steps; they\'ll be added automatically.')
   ,'add_more' => true  
   ,'fields' => array(
					array(
				   'type' => 'html'
				   ,'label' => __('Steps section')
				   ,'columns' => 12
				   ,'value' => ''
				   ,'attributes' => array(
					 'class' => 'recipe-subhead'
										)
					 )
	
	
	
	
				 	,array(
						'type' => 'text'
						,'field' => 'steps_component_title'
						,'label' => __('Section Title (can be omitted if there’s only one section)')
						,'columns' => 12
					)

					 ,array(
						'type' => 'textarea'
						,'field' => 'recipe_step'
						,'label' => __('Recipe Step')
						,'columns' => 12
						,'add_more' => true
				 	 )
				 	 
				 	 
				 	 
				 	 	 
	
   				)
 ));

Sure, Steve! Here you go:

piklist(‘field’, array(
‘type’ => ‘group’
,’field’ => ‘component’
,’label’ => __(‘Components’)
,’description’ => __(‘Add additional Components if a recipe has separate listings for different parts, i.e. the salad and the dressing.’)
,’add_more’ => true
,’fields’ => array(
array(
‘type’ => ‘html’
,’label’ => __(‘Ingredients’)
,’help’ => __(‘For consistency, please only capitalize sentences and Superior product names; otherwise keep all text lower case.’)
,’columns’ => 12
,’attributes’ => array(
‘class’ => ‘large-text’
)
)

,array(
‘type’ => ‘text’
,’field’ => ‘component_title’
,’label’ => __(‘Component Title (optional for 1st)’)
,’columns’ => 12
)

,array(
‘type’ => ‘group’
,’field’ => ‘ingredient’
,’add_more’ => true
,’fields’ => array(
array(
‘type’ => ‘number’
,’field’ => ‘ingredient_qty’
,’label’ => __(‘Qty’)
,’columns’ => 2
)
,array(
‘type’ => ‘textarea’
,’field’ => ‘ingredient_descrip’
,’label’ => __(‘Description’)
,’columns’ => 10
)
)
)
)
));