Adding a new meta box to the Hybrid Theme

Add additional meta boxes to Hybrid Theme

By Austin on March 27, 2009

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At the time of writing this post I have Theme Hybrid as my parent theme, and am using a custom version of Hybrid News that Justin Tadlock offers to the public.

Well I want to tell you how you can add additional custom meta boxes to your child theme’s running the Hybrid Theme.

In your child function.php file just add the following to create a new post meta box:

/**
* Add additional post meta boxes
*
* by WPCult
*/
function wpcult_post_meta_boxes($meta_boxes) {
	$meta_boxes['image'] = array(
		'name' => 'image',
		'default' => '',
		'title' => __('Image:'),
		'type' => 'text',
		'show_description' => false,
		'description' => __('Please use a full size image, larger than 500px (this photo will dynamically re-size itself!'),
	);
	return $meta_boxes;
}
add_filter('hybrid_post_meta_boxes', 'wpcult_post_meta_boxes');

This will create a custom meta box called Image, and will create a custom field with the id of image.

Additionally you can create this on pages as well by copy/paste and replacing “post_meta_box” with “page_meta_box” every where inside the function.

7 responses to “Add additional meta boxes to Hybrid Theme”

Septian
March 28, 2009 at 6:16 am | Permalink | Reply

Nice hack Frosty, it works… btw, what’s the purpose of this new meta box?
As far as I know, image function meta box already added (Thumbnail and Medium) right?

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1. Austin
  March 28, 2009 at 2:12 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  I use it to generate dynamic resized images with a image php file I’ve got. Think if you need to add a simple meta box to add to custom fields.
Miccky
April 8, 2009 at 4:15 pm | Permalink | Reply

Hi!
I like this theme.But I don’t know how to use it ,can you give me some help?
micckysun@gmail.com
I am from China , English is not so good !
1. Austin
  April 10, 2009 at 11:53 am | Permalink | Reply
  
  Please feel free to use my contact form for some more help.
  Alternatvily you can contact me at austin [at] frostywebdesigns.com and I can contract some work for you.
Searcher
May 21, 2009 at 12:55 am | Permalink | Reply

Hi Austin. I find this code very usefull for me. Can ask you in future to create something for me especially and for my need. It will be paid of course.
1. Austin
  May 21, 2009 at 7:45 am | Permalink | Reply
  
  Absolutely, feel free to send me and email through the contact form, or through my http://frostywebdesigns.com” rel=”nofollow”>portfolio site.
shawn
October 22, 2009 at 7:02 pm | Permalink | Reply

Using Hybrid on a site, and fairly a newbie overall at WP, but having a helluva time locating wp_list_pages to modify the header.

Can you tell me where its located?
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