Add ability to create custom boxes on the Write/Edit page for Custom Fields

[henrikmelin]

This functionality is currently available in the More Fields plugin:

​http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/

See ​http://labs.dagensskiva.com/plugins/more-fields/ for examples.

It is with Matt's encouragement I'm submitting this as a core patch :)

Cheers,
Henrik.

[ryan]

Note that trunk has much different box styles and that the right hand boxes are gone. Some porting will be necessary.

Some API for plugin authors to add boxes would compliment this nicely. Something like:

function add_meta_box($id, $title, $fields, $context) {...};

add_meta_box('foo', __('Foo'), array(key => 'the_foo', 'title' => __('The Foo'), 'type' => 'text'), 'post');

Settings for boxes added via plugin would not be persisted. The plugin would define them each time.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

meta boxes seem good enough