add_meta_box does not go ‘side’

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I’m trying to add some metabox to my custom post type. So I add this:

add_meta_box(
    'my_custom_meta_box_id', 
    'My-meta-box-title',
    'my_custom_meta_box_callback', 
    'my-custom-post-type', 
    'side', 
    'default'
);

So the meta-box keep showing at bottom left. What could cause that problem?

1 Answer
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This might be caused because you have tried to move your custom meta box to some place and WordPress respects the user’s ordering/positioning of these boxes. You can do as gmazzap has told because this will create a new user with blank preferences.

Or you can login to your database, find DBPREFIX_usermeta (DBPREFIX is your database prefix) and find related database entries. In my case:

db entries for custom ordering of user

You can see meta-box-order_PLUGINNAME (where it is your plugin’s name) and screen_layout_PLUGINNAME. When I removed these entries, the problem was gone.

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