{"id":189,"date":"2014-10-20T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diananichols.wpengine.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T10:49:55","slug":"dont-delete-custom-fields-quick-edit-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpwhatnot.com\/dont-delete-custom-fields-quick-edit-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Delete Custom Fields on Quick Edit Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When saving custom fields from a custom metabox, if the value is empty, usually the custom field is deleted. This is good, as it keeps from having lots of empty entries in the database.<\/p>\n<p>However, it means that when you update from the &#8220;Quick Edit&#8221; menu, since your custom fields are not in the form, they will disappear. Not so good.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the fix.\u00a0 Add this to your save function for the metabox:<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-syntax-highlighter\">\n<pre><textarea id=\"mshighlighter\" class=\"mshighlighter\" language=\"php\" name=\"mshighlighter\" >\/\/Don't update on Quick Edit\r\nif (defined('DOING_AJAX') ) {\r\n    return $post_id;\r\n}<\/textarea><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0So, your save function should look something like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-syntax-highlighter\">\n<pre><textarea id=\"mshighlighter\" class=\"mshighlighter\" language=\"php\" name=\"mshighlighter\" >add_action('save_post', 'lt_art_save_data');\r\n\r\nfunction lt_art_save_data($post_id) {\r\n    global $art_meta_box, $post ;\r\n    \r\n    \/\/Verify nonce\r\n    if (isset($_POST['lt_art_meta_box_nonce']) &amp;&amp; !wp_verify_nonce($_POST['lt_art_meta_box_nonce'], basename(__FILE__))) {\r\n        return $post_id;\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    \/\/Check autosave\r\n    if (defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') &amp;&amp; DOING_AUTOSAVE) {\r\n        return $post_id;\r\n    }\r\n\t\r\n    \/\/Don't update on Quick Edit\r\n    if (defined('DOING_AJAX') ) {\r\n\treturn $post_id;\r\n    }\r\n\t\t\r\n    \/\/Check permissions\r\n    if ('page' == $_POST['post_type']) {\r\n        if (!current_user_can('edit_page', $post_id)) {\r\n            return $post_id;\r\n        }\r\n    } elseif (!current_user_can('edit_post', $post_id)) {\r\n        return $post_id;\r\n    }\r\n\t\r\n    foreach ($art_meta_box['lt_art']['fields'] as $field) {\r\n        $old = get_post_meta($post_id, $field['id'], true);\r\n        $new = $_POST[$field['id']];\r\n        \r\n        if ($new &amp;&amp; $new != $old) {\r\n            update_post_meta($post_id, $field['id'], $new);\r\n        } elseif ('' == $new &amp;&amp; $old) {\r\n            delete_post_meta($post_id, $field['id'], $old);\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n}<\/textarea><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When saving custom fields from a custom metabox, if the value is empty, usually the custom field is deleted. 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