I'm designing my own plugin for WP and want to group bunches of controls in something like metabox in my plugin's settings page. There is a function called add_meta_box() for it. But it works only with the Write Post, Write Page, and Write Link editing pages, not with the plugin settings page. Is there a way to add metabox to the plugin settings page?
Add metabox to the plugin settings page (3 posts)
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Oleg
Posted 3 months ago # -
For consistency and future-proofing it might be best to stick with the normal styling provided by the Settings API. However, if you really want to add meta boxes, I do know that
add_meta_box()just adds a meta box to a queue which is then output by thedo_meta_boxes()function.Function Reference/do meta boxes
This reference is a bit old, but may offer a few useful insights/examples:
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Posted 3 months ago #Big Bagel, thanks for your answer!
I've got it working by setting $screen parameter of add_meta_box() to null. This adds metabox to the current screen (get_current_screen()). I've also found that proper $screen value should be equal to the "settings_page_" . $menu_slug (fourth parameter of the add_options_page()) value, when adding metabox to your plugin.
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