Users have meta-data, just as posts and terms. With User Metaboxes in Cuisine, it’s become very easy to create new custom fields for user-profiles.
The User Metabox class is available through Cuisine’s Wrapper System, so you can start using it by adding
use Cuisine\Wrappers\UserMetabox
to the top of your php-document.
Creating a new metabox with a few custom fields is fairy straightforward. Let’s look at an example:
$fields = array(
Field::text( 'twitter-username', 'Twitter Username' ),
Field::text( 'facebook-username', 'Facebook Username' )
);
UserMetabox::make( 'Social media' )->set( $fields );Let’s break that down:
UserMetabox::make() is the function we use to prop up our Metabox. set() actually registers it with WordPress. It takes an array of Field Objects or can alternatively take a call to a static php function (see the next example).
The parameter passed down to the make-function is a label, which will be displayed on the top of your UserMetabox.
Instead of passing an array of Field Objects you can also just call a static function:
UserMetabox::make( 'My Metabox' )->set( '\\MyNameSpace\\MyClass::metabox' );
namespace MyNameSpace;
class MyClass{
//here's our custom HTML:
public static function metabox(){
echo 'Hi from the metabox!';
}
}