How to save metadata in wordpress custom post type

Custom post type are very important in wordpress. Code for save metadata in wordpress custom post type. There are some plugins for creating the post type but I recommend custom code in function.php file.

How to save metadata in wordpress custom post type

I already written about custom post type. If you want to know about custom post type in detail then you can use following articles.

• Create custom post type with permalink
• How to add the custom post type with associated tags and category
• How to use the custom post type in wordpress
• Add tags support in custom post type
• File upload with add_meta_box or custom_post_type in wordpress

Here in this tutorial I showed How to save the meta data for your custom post type.

add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'job_detail_box' );

function job_detail_box() {
add_meta_box(
'job_detail_box',
__( 'job Detail', 'myplugin_textdomain' ),
'job_detail_box_content',
'job',
'normal',
'high'
);
}

function job_detail_box_content( $post ) {
// No need to globalise a post that is an argument on this callback
$meta_p = get_post_meta($post->ID, "jobs_price", true);
$meta_l = get_post_meta($post->ID, "jobs_location", true);

echo '<input type="hidden" name="jobs-nonce" id="jobs-nonce" value="' . wp_create_nonce( 'jobs-nonce' ) . '" />';

?>
<div>
<ul>

<ul>

<ul>
	<li><label>job Price</label>php echo $meta_p; ?>" /></li>
</ul>

</ul>

<ul>

<ul>
	<li><label>job Location</label>php echo $meta_l; ?>" /></li>
</ul>

</ul>

</ul>
</div>
<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1"-->php
}

add_action ('save_post', 'save_jobs');

// The save_post hook provides the post id to the return function
function save_jobs( $post_id ){

if ( !wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['jobs-nonce'], 'jobs-nonce' )) {
return $post_id;
}

if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post_id ))
return $post_id;

update_post_meta($post_id, "jobs_price", $POST['jobs_price'] );
update_post_meta($post_id, "jobs_location", $POST['jobs_location'] );
}