WordPress get metabox info for selected custom post type

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I have a form, created as a plugin in wordpress. In the form is a drop down select menu that is populated with all entries from a custom post type called ‘singers’.

i.e. “singer 1, singer 2, singer 3”

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In this custom post type, each singer has meta box info, the info I’m interested in is ‘singer_gender’. When a singer is selected, I want to pass a variable into a hidden field on that form with either “male” or “female”

So, for example, if Singer 1 is selected, and is male, my form would have the following hidden field: 

<input type="hidden" name="singer_gender" id="singer_gender" value="<?php echo singer_gender; ?>" />

Is there a way to make this happen?

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  1. You would use get_post_meta to retrieve values entered in a meta box.

    If singer_gender is the meta box key, your code might look like this:

    <?php
  global $post;
  $single_gender = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'singer_gender', true);
?>

<input type="hidden" name="singer_gender" id="singer_gender" value="<?php echo $singer_gender; ?>" />

  2. You could store the gender inside a data value on the options of the select.

    Like this:

    $('#person').change(function(){
	var gender = $(this).find('option:checked').attr('data-gender');
    $('#gender_hidden').val(gender);
    $('#gender').val(gender);
});
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form>
    <input type="hidden" id="gender_hidden" />
    <input type="text" id="gender" />
    <select id="person" onchange="change(this);">
        <option value="Person_1" data-gender="male">Person 1</option>
        <option value="Person_2" data-gender="female">Person 2</option>
        <option value="Person_3" data-gender="male">Person 3</option>
    </select>
</form>

    To generate the HTML for that use get_post_meta

    <?php
$args = array('post_type'=>'people');

$people = WP_Query($args);
if ($people->have_posts()) ?>
    <input id="gender" name="gender" />
    <select name="person">
        <?php while ($people->have_posts()){ $people->the_post();
            global $post;
            $name = get_the_title();
            $slug = $post->post_name;
            $gender = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'gender', true);
        ?>
        <option data-gender="<?php echo $gender; ?>" value="<?php echo $slug; ?>"><?php echo $name; ?></option>
        <?php } ?>
    </select>
<?php }

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