Comments on: WordPress: adding a custom option box and developing file upload plugin

By: Bohdan

Bohdan — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:44:16 +0000

Thank you!

By: sony

sony — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:11:37 +0000

I written the detail and simple code to upload file through add_meta_box function. check the following article.
http://wordpressapi.com/2010/11/22/file-upload-with-add_meta_box-or-custom_post_type-in-wordpress/

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:31:11 +0000

Couple things I noticed. In the newest wordpress upgrade, you can add strings to the form code without editing core files. All you need to do is add:
function post_edit_form_tag( ) {
echo ‘ enctype=”multipart/form-data”‘;
}
to your functions.php of your theme.

Also, I am getting the bad directory error that several other people have gotten. I’ve changed the name of the dir to “bag_thumb” and I’ve added the dir to every folder in my site. Still doesn’t work. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance, this plugin is very useful. Cheers.

By: Prestashop Themes

Prestashop Themes — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:40:06 +0000

thanks for sharing it. regards from Indonesia.

By: Rohan Sehgal

Rohan Sehgal — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:40:33 +0000

Nice post,

Thanks a lot for sharing this valuable plugin and your ideas. It’s really informative to the wordpress lovers. I am using few lines of your code to develop my own image gallery plugin.

Thanks a lot……keep posting..
Rohan

By: Jeff Ballweg

Jeff Ballweg — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:02:13 +0000

1. Definitely the best way to add enctype=”multipart/form-data” is to add it with jQuery. In my case, I made an upload control, that is added to the Post page, and the jQuery is executed there.

2. You don’t need to do all that stuff directly on the database, unless you have a massive need to. Try:
add_post_meta($post_id, ‘_your_option_name’, ‘your option value’)
This will save it as a custom field attached to the post. Retrieve the value with
get_post_meta($post_id, ‘_your_option_name’)

3. You might find that hooking ‘save_post’ is going to fire your event twice, which might have an upload error on the second attempt (and, in your method, definitely go through a second series of database transactions) set a global flag and check for it.. eg,
global $flag =0;
if($flag == 0) {
// do you code
$flag = 1;
}

Cheers from New Zealand.

By: Adam Jowell

Adam Jowell — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:49:34 +0000

Sorry, did not mean for you to do it. Was wondering if it were possible with the existing script.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:47:27 +0000

@ Adam

May be.
But I am too busy to do that.
Sorry.

By: Adam Jowell

Adam Jowell — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:53:55 +0000

Can you make that into a front-end public form??

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:29:29 +0000

hey guys

love the idea of this plugin but as mentioned above I get this error and don’t know how to fix it:

Warning: opendir(../bag_thumb/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/websitename/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bag-thumb/bag-thumb.php on line 47

Any idea?

Thanks

Andy