WordPress – Custom Meta Box, working but not saving values

[mtedwards]

Hi Guys,

I’ve been wrestling with this all day and I can’t work out whats going wrong.

I’ve got the custom meta boxes displaying; a text box and a drop down list, but I can’t get them to save their values to the database.

Am I missing something really simple?? Any guidance would be really appreciated.

Here’s my code:

function at_post_meta (){

global $post;

$custom = get_post_custom($post->ID);

$at_slider_featured = $custom["at_slider_featured"][0];

$at_other_author = $custom["at_other_author"][0];

?>



Featured Slider:




False

True







Other Author:







}



function add_at_post_box(){

add_meta_box(

"at_post_info",

"Post Details",

"at_post_meta",

"post",

"side",

"core"

);

}



function save_at_post_meta(){

global $post;

update_post_meta($post->ID, "at_slider_featured", $_POST["at_slider_featured"]);

update_post_meta($post->ID, "at_other_author", $_POST["at_other_author"]);

}



add_action( 'admin_init', 'add_at_post_box');



add_action('save_post', 'save_at_post_meta');



add_action('publish_post', 'save_at_post_meta');

?>

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Matt

[dhiggins]

@mtedwards from what I understand is you’ll need a nonce in there to validate @ save… Here’s a link on how I use the add_meta_box hook

Hope that helps!

[mtedwards]

@dhiggins Thanks so much… its getting late here (Australia) but I looked at your post and it looks like exactly what I need. Going to work through it in the morning.

Thanks again.

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