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February 9, 2015 at 4:49 pm

I am trying to add a custom meta box but have been unsuccessful. I saw this post (https://eventespresso.com/topic/custom-events-meta-boxes/) and and followed the steps outlined in it but was not able to successfully get the meta box to show on the event page.

In my code below you will see that I tried adding the meta box to the post type “post” (for testing) and “espresso_events”. When it is set as “post” I see the meta box show up (as well as my echo “hotel_info_add_post_meta_boxes”) but not when the type is set to “espresso_events”.

Here is an excerpt of my code in my-theme/functions.php:
add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘hotel_info_add_post_meta_boxes’ );

function hotel_info_add_post_meta_boxes()
{
echo “hotel_info_add_post_meta_boxes”;
add_meta_box(
‘hotel-info-post-class’, // Unique ID
esc_html__( ‘Hotel Information’, ‘example’ ), // Title
‘hotel_info_post_class_meta_box’, // Callback function
//’espresso_events’, //Commented out for testing
‘post’, // Inserted for testing.
‘side’, // Context
‘default’ // Priority
);
}

Since the echo doesn’t even appear on the event edit post page, it seems to me that hotel_info_add_post_meta_boxes() is not being run.
– Is the hook is not firing?
– Am I using the wrong hook? (I understand I could also use ‘add_meta_boxes_espresso_events’ but this should work shouldnt it?)
– Is there something else I am missing?
– Is it possible to see the complete innards of a working example of this with EE3?