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Meta Box Abilities

Meta Box exposes its custom-field CRUD system as abilities, letting AI read, write and delete Meta Box custom field values on posts, terms, users, comments and settings pages, plus look up the expected value format for any field type before writing to it.

4

Total

2

Read

2

Write

Requires the Meta Box plugin on WordPress 6.9+ for the Abilities API (abilities are registered only when the wp_register_ability() function exists). The get, update, and delete abilities additionally require the target key to be a field Meta Box actually recognizes (verified via rwmb_get_field_settings) and the current user to hold the WordPress capability mapped from object_type: read_post/edit_post for posts, assign_term/edit_term for terms, read/edit_user for users, read/manage_options for settings pages, and read/moderate_comments for comments.

Delete a custom field value

Destructive

meta-box/delete-field-value

Permanently remove the stored value of a Meta Box custom field from an object.

Get a custom field value

Read-only

meta-box/get-field-value

Retrieve the stored value of a Meta Box custom field for a post, term, user, comment, or settings page.

Get expected value format for a field

Read-only

meta-box/get-field-value-format

Look up the expected value format and a worked example for a Meta Box field type, or for one specific field.

Update (or create) a custom field value

Write

meta-box/update-field-value

Set the value of a Meta Box custom field, creating it if it doesn't already exist yet.

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