@cotswoldphoto– Do you have the Piklist Demos turned on? If so, turn them off at Piklist > Add-ons >

@jason– Docs have been updated.

@tuckerjoenz– When you’re registering your post type you are not adding support for the title. With no title, WordPress will automatically add “Auto Draft”.

Add support for a title:

,'supports' => array(
      'author'
      ,'revisions'
      ,'title'
    )

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. HTML validation will be removed from the next version of Piklist. If you want to Sanitize an input for allowed HTML, then use the built-in sanitization rule wp_kses_post.

@jason– Piklist uses a regular expression to validate, and apparently it’s not correct.

But another thought is whether or not this is needed. Do you need to validate HTML, or do you want to SANITIZE it? Piklist already includes the ability to sanitize using wp_kses_post.

Should we pull HTML validation from Piklist and leave the sanitization?

Great! Closing ticket.

@jason– Since you’re validating with Regex, it’s even simpler:

add_filter('piklist_validation_rules', 'validate_youtube_url', 11);
function validate_youtube_url()
{
  $validation_rules = array(
    'youtube-url' => array(
      'rule' => "/^https?:\/\/(www.)?youtu(be\.com|\.be)\/(watch\?v=)?([[:alnum:]_-]+)$/"
      ,'message' => __('Unrecognized youtube url')
    )
  );
 
  return $validation_rules;
}

and your field:

piklist('field', array(
  'description' => 'Paste either the page or short url',
  'type'      => 'text',
  'field'     => 'design-video',
  'label'     => 'Video Url',
  'columns'   => 12,
  'validate'  => array(
    array(
      'type'      => 'youtube-url',
    )
  )
));