Question

I am now currently coding a plugin for the WordPress admin. It’s about custom meta boxes. I would like to create a slideshow plugin, just for learning a lot of coding.

I have created one metabox, that contains an image upload and a text input field. (see picture bellow)

So on, I can save the fields, so I can upload an image and set an capton to it inside the text field. When I save the post/page inside WordPress it will save the values for me in my database. That’s fine!

Now I would like to expand the code, through the user possibility to add and remove fields, like, repeatable field.
As you can see in the image above, I have created the add new slide button, I have also code some javascript for get it work, but this doesn’t work correctly.

So my question to you is, what’s the best way to create dynamically fields?
I am now using the clone function in javascript, to clone the fields, but only the default row will work.

I’ve been a few weeks with it and couldn’t find a solution so far.

Some code:
This is the code of my metabox created with PHP
This is the jQuery / Javascript that I’m using now

Answer 1

I’ve answered many Questions regarding this topic in WordPress StackExchange.
It is called Repeatable Fields.

But basically these are the needed resources:

• Create more Meta Boxes as needed – WPSE Q&A

• Repeatable Custom Fields in a Metabox – Gist

  /**
   * Repeatable Custom Fields in a Metabox
   * Author: Helen Hou-Sandi
   *
   * From a bespoke system, so currently not modular - will fix soon
   * Note that this particular metadata is saved as one multidimensional array (serialized)
   */
  

• Repeatable Custom Fields in a Metabox – Another Gist example, no description given