I'm trying to echo the value from a Metabox textarea between the head tags of my Wordpress website, so that the site owner can insert page individual scripts.
I've already created my metabox with succes:
<?php
$post_id_post = isset($_POST['post_ID']) ? $_POST['post_ID'] : '' ;
$post_id = isset($_GET['post']) ? $_GET['post'] : $post_id_post ;
if ( ! function_exists( 'onm_head_add_meta' ) ){
function onm_head_add_meta(){
$types = array( 'post', 'page', 'courses', 'wiki', 'press' );
foreach( $types as $type ) {
add_meta_box('head-metabox-code', __('Scripts', 'onm_textdomain' ), 'onm_sitewide_meta_box', $type, 'normal', 'low');
}
}
}
add_action("admin_init", "onm_head_add_meta");
//Create area for extra fields
if ( ! function_exists( 'onm_sitewide_meta_box' ) ){
function onm_sitewide_meta_box( $post ){
$custom = get_post_custom();
$head_scripts = isset($custom["head_scripts"][0])?$custom["head_scripts"][0]:'';
// We'll use this nonce field later on when saving.
wp_nonce_field( 'my_meta_box_nonce', 'meta_box_nonce' );
?>
<textarea name="head_scripts" type="text" class="widefat" cols="50" rows="3"/><?php echo esc_attr($head_scripts); ?></textarea>
<p><?php _e('The code in the above textfield will be added between the <code><head></head></code> tags of the website.', 'onm_textdomain' ); ?></p>
<?php
}
}
if ( ! function_exists( 'onm_save_page_meta_box' ) ){
function onm_save_page_meta_box( $post_id ){
// Bail if we're doing an auto save
if( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) {
return;
}
// if our nonce isn't there, or we can't verify it, bail
if( !isset( $_POST['head_scripts'] ) || !wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['meta_box_nonce'], 'my_meta_box_nonce' ) ) {
return;
}
// if our current user can't edit this post, bail
if( !current_user_can( 'edit_pages' ) ) {
return;
}
// now we can actually save the data
if( isset( $_POST['head_scripts'] ) ) {
update_post_meta( $post_id, 'head_scripts', esc_attr( $_POST['head_scripts'] ) );
}
}
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'onm_save_page_meta_box' );
Now I try to output the value from the Metabox between my head tags as follows:
if ( ! function_exists( 'onm_wp_head' ) ){
function onm_wp_head() {
$head_scripts_meta = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'head_scripts' , TRUE );
if ( $head_scripts_meta != '' ) {
echo $head_scripts_meta, "\n";
}
}
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'onm_wp_head' );
But on my website this results in the output of the Metabox right after my opening body tag (take a look at my example below or this print screen).
<head></head>
<body>
"<script type="text/javascript">Test</script>"
Not a nice script within my head tags. It's weird because it works like a charm when I test the script as follows:
if ( ! function_exists( 'onm_wp_head' ) ){
function onm_wp_head() {
$head_scripts_meta = '<script type="text/javascript">Test</script>';
if ( $head_scripts_meta != '' ) {
echo $head_scripts_meta, "\n";
}
}
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'onm_wp_head' );
I think this has to do with the textarea, isn't it? Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks already guys!
I found the solution after a while. I had to stripslashes before the output in the header. So my function became the following and then it worked:
if ( ! function_exists( 'onm_script_wp_head' ) ){
function onm_script_wp_head() {
$head_scripts_meta = stripslashes(get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'head_scripts' , TRUE ));
if ( $head_scripts_meta != '' ) {
echo $head_scripts_meta, "\n";
}
}
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'onm_script_wp_head' );
Thanks for helping guys!