When input data to custom fields, you definitely can use the field's description to notice or warn users about something. But it is not attractive enough so they can skip it. That’s when you should use an alert message for your custom fields. With Meta Box, you can do it easily with the help of the Custom HTML field type. Let’s explore how to create a notification using this field.

This is a notification that I created for example.

An example of notification was created by custom HTML field from Meta Box

Video Version

Before Getting Started

The content of the alert is from the one saved in a Custom HTML field. To have the framework to create it and other custom fields, we need the Meta Box core plugin. You can install it directly from wordpress.org.

Besides, you may need some Meta Box extensions for its advanced features to have custom fields as your wish. You can install them individually or use Meta Box AIO. In this case, I use these ones:

  • Meta Box Builder: to have a UI on the back end to create custom fields;
  • Meta Box Conditional Logic (optional): to show or hide custom fields based on the data users fill in another field. It is just optional if you need to show or hide fields in your case.
  • Meta Box Group (optional): to group together the fields along with the Custom HTML field that we use for the notification. This is optional as well. In fact, you obviously can set the Custom HTML field stand alone.

Create Custom Fields

Go to Meta Box > Custom Fields and create some custom fields.

Go to Meta Box > Custom Fields to create some custom fields

For the first field, choose the type as the Radio field. Then, you can fill in some options for choosing into the Choices box.

choose the type as the Radio field, then fill in some options for choosing into the Choices box.

Since I want the alert message to go along with another field, I will put both of them into a group. There is no need to have a label for this group, so leave it blank.

the alert message to go along with another field, so put both of them into a group with blank label

This group will appear only when the user chooses the Yes option in the Radio field, so we will set a conditional logic for this group. Go to the Advanced tab in the settings of the group and add the rule.

Go to the Advanced tab in the settings of the group and add the rule to set the rule when does the alert message apear

Fill in the ID of the Radio field and the value of the Yes option.

Fill in the ID of the Radio field and the value of the Yes option

Now, add a Custom HTML field for the alert. It’ll be a subfield of the group.

Add the first subfield of the group which has the type as Custom HTML

Add content for it in the box named Content (HTML allowed).

Add content for it in the box named Content (HTML allowed)

I also added a div tag and classes for this text as <div class="alert alert-info"> for styling this notification later.

Add the remaining field.

Add the remaining field. Here is the Text field with the Label is Subject

Let’s set the location for these fields. Go to the Settings tab, set Location as Post Type, then choose any post type you want.

Go to the Settings tab, set Location as Post Type, then choose any post type to set the location of created custom fields

Go to the post editor, you will see the fields with the notification.

the fields with the notification displayed in the post editor

The notification is quite not prominent compared to other texts. So, let's style it a little bit.

Style the Notification

I will use CSS to style the notification. So, go to the theme's files, add this code to declare and create a file named admin.css:

add_action( 'rwmb_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_custom_style' );
function enqueue_custom_style() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'custom-css', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets/css/admin.css' );
}

add the code to declare and create a file named admin.css

Next, go to the file and add some CSS code with the content as follows:

.alert-info {
background-color: #d9edf7;
border-color: #bcdff1;
color: #31708f;
}
.alert {
padding: .75rem 1.25rem;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
border: 1px solid transparent;
border-radius: .25rem;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 2;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}

The alert and alert-info are two classes that I added in the content of the notification when creating its custom field.

go to the file, add some CSS code for 2 classes to style the notification

Now, go back to a post editor, you will see the message has a new look.

the final look of the notification

Last Words

It’s easy to create notifications with the help of the Custom HTML field from Meta Box. This is just a small tip but we hope that it can help you in your own application in real cases. Let’s try it and give us the result. Keep track of us to see more useful practices. Thanks for reading!

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