How to save metadata in wordpress custom post type

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.

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

01add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'job_detail_box' );
02 
03function job_detail_box() {
04add_meta_box(
05'job_detail_box',
06__( 'job Detail', 'myplugin_textdomain' ),
07'job_detail_box_content',
08'job',
09'normal',
10'high'
11);
12}
13 
14function job_detail_box_content( $post ) {
15// No need to globalise a post that is an argument on this callback
16$meta_p = get_post_meta($post->ID, "jobs_price", true);
17$meta_l = get_post_meta($post->ID, "jobs_location", true);
18 
19echo '<input type="hidden" name="jobs-nonce" id="jobs-nonce" value="' . wp_create_nonce( 'jobs-nonce' ) . '" />';
20 
21?>
22<div>
23<ul>
24 
25<ul>
26 
27<ul>
28    <li><label>job Price</label>php echo $meta_p; ?>" /></li>
29</ul>
30 
31</ul>
32 
33<ul>
34 
35<ul>
36    <li><label>job Location</label>php echo $meta_l; ?>" /></li>
37</ul>
38 
39</ul>
40 
41</ul>
42</div>
43<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1"-->php
44}
45 
46add_action ('save_post', 'save_jobs');
47 
48// The save_post hook provides the post id to the return function
49function save_jobs( $post_id ){
50 
51if ( !wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['jobs-nonce'], 'jobs-nonce' )) {
52return $post_id;
53}
54 
55if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post_id ))
56return $post_id;
57 
58update_post_meta($post_id, "jobs_price", $POST['jobs_price'] );
59update_post_meta($post_id, "jobs_location", $POST['jobs_location'] );
60}

How to save the meta data in wordpress custom post type

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