I’m wanting to change the display title of a meta box when editing a custom post.
I want to try this solution here:
How to change the title of a Meta Box on a specified Custom Post Type?
Where I’d be removing the meta box and then re-adding it with a modified title. However, I don’t have the ID information of my meta boxes and am having trouble finding them. Is there a way to get a list of ID’s of meta boxes? I’ve looked into the global variable $wp_meta_boxes
, but I couldn’t figure out how to list the ID’s.
A bit more information: I didn’t create the meta boxes originally. I created custom taxonomies for a specific post type, and WordPress automatically created the meta boxes that allow you to tag those custom taxonomies while editing my custom post.
1 Answer
Here’s what I would do in order to get the ID of the metabox,
- In the Dashboard where the meta boxed are located, open up the Screen Options tab on the upper right corner
- Open up your browser’s developer tool (ex: Chrome)
- Use the element selector () and select the checkbox label that is listed in the Screen Options, like so:
- The element will be selected and you should see something similar:
- For each
<label for=
tag, you will find the ID’s of each meta box, for example:dashboard_right_now
dashboard_activity
dashboard_quick_press
dashboard_primary
wp_welcome_panel
From there, you can continue with the code that you found in a previous question with the ID that you need.