Title: Saving checkbox values
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Saving checkbox values

 *  [obidos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obidos/)
 * (@obidos)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/saving-checkbox-values/)
 * Hi,
 * I have created a checkbox for pages and my custom post types called project.
 * I want the default to be checked and then the client needs to untick the box 
   and click update for the state to change.
 * Here is how my meta box is created:-
 *     ```
       function add_feature_meta($post, $metabox)
       {
       	global $post;
   
       	$show		= 'on';
   
         	$custom = get_post_custom($post->ID);
   
       	if (array_key_exists('show', $custom))
       	{
       		if ($custom["show"][0] == 'on')
       		{
       			$show	= ' checked';
       		}
       	}
   
       	include(MY_THEME_FOLDER . '/custom/featuremeta.php');
   
       }
       ```
   
 * The featuremeta.php file contains this code:-
 *     ```
       <input type="checkbox" name="show" <?php if( $show == true ) { ?>checked<?php } ?> >
       ```
   
 * To save the value I have tried this:-
 *     ```
       add_action('save_post', 'save_details');
   
       function save_details($post_ID = 0) {
           $post_ID = (int) $post_ID;
           $post_type = get_post_type( $post_ID );
           $post_status = get_post_status( $post_ID );
   
           if ($post_type) {
           	update_post_meta($post_ID, "show", $_POST["show"]);
           }
          return $post_ID;
       }
       ```
   
 * However until I go through all the pages and projects and click update the default
   ticked option is not active. Any ideas if this is the correct way to save the
   checkbox data?
 * Thank you,

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