post-type-select.md

Post type select

Post type select field renders a searchable Select 2 field that will provide a list of post type titles when a user has typed at least two characters (the values will be loaded dynamically). Similar to the Datalist field. Supports multiple choice.

Description

The field uses AJAX to load the values dynamically, so depending on your configuration, there may be some latency before the results are presented to the user. Uses the Search Parameter of the WP_Query class on the back end.

Example configuration

...
array(
    'title' => 'My post type select field title',
    'id' => 'post-type-select-option',
    'desc' => 'Short description for the field',
    'tab' => 'main',
    'post-type' => 'page',
    'type' => 'post-type-select',
),
...

This will produce the following

Multiple choice

if 'multiple' => true is added to the configuration object, the field will respect it. The following configuration

...
array(
    'title' => 'My post type select field title',
    'id' => 'post-type-select-option',
    'desc' => 'Short description for the field',
    'tab' => 'main',
    'post-type' => 'page',
    'multiple' => true,
    'type' => 'post-type-select',
),
...

will result in the following

Params

Name	Type	Description
type	string	post-type-select (required)
id	string	Unique ID that will be used to retrieve the value (required)
tab	string	Specifies in which tab this option will be rendered
title	string	Shows a heading to the left of the field
desc	string	Shows a description text (can have HTML)
multiple	boolean	Set to true if multiple values are needed. See an example above.
post-type	string	Post type (standard or custom) to search for. If not specified, searches posts of the post type.