wp-admin-postbox-sortable

wp-admin-postbox-sortable is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (3,818 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to add WordPress-style collapsible, draggable boxes to a custom administration page. It includes support for Screen Options, which lets users hide boxes, and for saving their order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for movable settings panels, dashboard sections, repeater rows, and other custom admin layouts.
Why use it?
It avoids recreating familiar WordPress admin behavior and addresses the extra markup, scripts, and security fields needed for settings to persist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for movable settings panels, dashboard sections, repeater rows, and other custom admin layouts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills/wp-admin-postbox-sortable
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills --skill wp-admin-postbox-sortable
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,818 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00153 $0.03818
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01909
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00764
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00382

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2c6931f17a25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wp-admin-postbox-sortable scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

wordpress/wp-admin-postbox-sortable/SKILL.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WordPress Admin Postboxes & Sortable

Use this skill when you need the familiar collapsible / draggable / Screen-Options-toggleable boxes that WordPress core uses on post edit and Dashboard, but on your own admin page or in your own draggable list. The most common failure mode is wiring up the HTML correctly, then watching the box collapse fine but never persist — because the nonce field is missing and the AJAX call silently fails.

When to use this skill

Trigger when ANY of the following is true:

  • The user is calling add_meta_box() on a custom screen (not just the regular post edit), or registering a custom screen and wants postbox behavior.
  • The user wants drag-and-drop reordering for a list of items in wp-admin (option rows, repeater fields, custom panels).
  • Code references postboxes.add_postbox_toggles, .meta-box-sortables, .postbox, .hndle, closedpostboxesnonce, meta-box-order-nonce, closedpostboxes_*, metaboxhidden_*, or meta-box-order_*.
  • The user says "the collapse/expand works but doesn't save" or "drag works but order doesn't persist" or "Screen Options checkboxes don't appear on my page".

The four pieces that MUST be in place

The postbox UI looks like a single component but it's actually four things wired together. Miss one and the behavior degrades silently. None of this is automatic on a custom admin page.

Piece Owner Failure mode if missing
1. postbox script enqueued Your admin_enqueue_scripts callback No collapse, no drag
2. Correct DOM (.meta-box-sortables > .postbox > .hndle) Your view template Sortable doesn't init, collapse classes don't bind
3. The two nonce fields in the form Your view template AJAX persistence fails; state is not stored
4. postboxes.add_postbox_toggles( pageId ) called on DOM ready Your admin JS No postbox behavior binds; sortable / collapse / Screen Options handlers never start

1. Enqueue the postbox script

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 295 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 2c6931f17a25

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wp-admin-postbox-sortable is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 3,818 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-11.

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