theme development - How to show metabox on page if it is using a template

I was creating metaboxes for a special kind of pages. But i got stuck when showing metaboxes to the pages only who currently have the template 'Sky'. my template file name is sky-template.php and holds this code.

/*
Template Name: Sky
*/

And I am adding metaboxes using this function.

add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'cd_meta_box_add' );
function cd_meta_box_add() {
    add_meta_box( 'sky_page_excerpt', 'SkyScraper Page Excerpt and Links', 'sky_page_excerpts', 'page', 'advanced', 'high' );
}

I want to add the metaboxes only to pages with template sky. How will i do that. Thanks in advance

I was creating metaboxes for a special kind of pages. But i got stuck when showing metaboxes to the pages only who currently have the template 'Sky'. my template file name is sky-template.php and holds this code.

/*
Template Name: Sky
*/

And I am adding metaboxes using this function.

add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'cd_meta_box_add' );
function cd_meta_box_add() {
    add_meta_box( 'sky_page_excerpt', 'SkyScraper Page Excerpt and Links', 'sky_page_excerpts', 'page', 'advanced', 'high' );
}

I want to add the metaboxes only to pages with template sky. How will i do that. Thanks in advance

• theme-development
• pages
• page-template
• child-theme

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Use the page-specific meta box hook & accept the $post object that's passed to it - then you can check if it currently has a page template of sky-template.php.

add_action( 'add_meta_boxes_page', function ( $post ) {
    if ( $post->_wp_page_template === 'sky-template.php' ) {
        add_meta_box( 'sky_page_excerpt', 'SkyScraper Page Excerpt and Links', 'sky_page_excerpts', 'page', 'advanced', 'high' );
    }
});

Note: this will only work on submit/refresh i.e. when you first (de)select the template when editing, you'll need to save changes and have the page reload for the meta box to take affect.