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badabingbreda 2 weeks, 6 days ago.
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Hi there, because there isn’t a “Meta Box Block” Forum yet, tagging this in General.
I want to get info on the Active Post WHEN EDITING, so when editing the blocks.
I’ve tried a few options that usually work for me, like
get_the_ID(),filter_input( INPUT_GET, 'post', FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT )but they don’t seem to work, because this is an ajax call probably.Any possibility to let me get to the currently editing post ID?
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Yes, that’s right. The plugin uses ajax to render the block, and the post ID isn’t passed to the block.
get_the_ID()probably will work only when viewing the post on the front end.Just curious, why do you need the post ID?
Using my implementation of your Meta Box Block I can enable users to query other parts of the posts data as well. A very simple example for instance is a custom block that will show the terms of a category on the post. But for that, I will need at least the post ID.
Other things might be author of the post, publish-date, or pulling in other custom field (not block) field-data. That last one seems far fetched but why not if it can be done?
As you said, it works when rendering front-end. But that experience is somewhat off when, while using Gutenberg, I can’t get to the post id and use that.
Hi, I got it. I’ll add the post ID in the next version.
Changed line 99 in MetaBox.php into:
call_user_func( $this->render_callback, $attributes, $is_preview , $post_id );Adding the $post_id does the trick for me. 🙂
Oops, I forgot to pass the param to the render callback function. Thanks for your help!
LOL, was just about to edit my previous comment that I spotted the change in the docs, but not in the actual source-code.
Thanks for the quick fix. It worked out marvelously!
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