[Plugin: Front-end Editor] Use front end editor with checkboxes

How would that work? What would you double-click on?

maybe if checked > update database with true/false?

Yeah, that would work.

My question is this:

For a text value, you have a text input or a textarea. On the front end, you just show the value as HTML text.

For a true/false value, you have a checkbox. But how do you display it?

I guess a potential solution would be to just display ‘yes’ for true and ‘no’ for false.

Check out the development version (2.0-alpha3).

To display a custom field that’s to be edited using a checkbox write:

editable_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'my-meta-key', 'checkbox' );

replacing, of course, ‘my-meta-key’ with your meta key.

If you need to replace yes/no with something else, you can write:

editable_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'my-meta-key', array(
    'type' => 'checkbox',
    'values' => array( true => 'yes', false => 'no' )
) );

Thank you for your answers! I will try this now, but the link didn’t work (pointed to https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/checkbox.zip) ?

Oups, I meant https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/front-end-editor.zip

You can always reach it by going to Front-end Editor -> Other Versions -> Development Version.

Thanks a lot, that worked!

Have two more questions!

1.
I’m wondering if instead of yes/no, displaying a png-image with different graphics on checked/unchecked. Could that be done, for example using jQuery (like .attr(“src”,”graphic.png”); or something?

2.
I need to reset all values of a certain custom field, would like to make it a function and run it on a specific php-page. But I don’t know exacly how. This code works, but for some reason it executes even it is on a page that is not used (why?)

$querystr = "
SELECT wposts.*
FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta
WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id
AND wpostmeta.meta_key = 'price'
AND wpostmeta.meta_value = '50'
AND wposts.post_status = 'publish'
AND wposts.post_type = 'post'
ORDER BY wposts.post_date DESC";

$pageposts = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);

?>
 <?php if ($pageposts): ?>
<?php foreach ($pageposts as $post): ?>
<?php setup_postdata($post); ?>
<?php update_post_meta($post->ID, 'price', '0'); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

btw, will definitely donate some money to you, the plugin is great!

1.
I’m wondering if instead of yes/no, displaying a png-image with different graphics on checked/unchecked. Could that be done, for example using jQuery (like .attr(“src”,”graphic.png”); or something?

You can just send the img tags instead of the ‘yes’ / ‘no’ strings.

(The img tags worked, but becomes hard to click at)

old question on this topic,

Can i make the checkbox beeing unchecked by default?