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How to Create a Custom 404 Page in WordPress - P4 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

How to Create a Custom 404 Page in WordPress - P4 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

I have encountered situations where users felt frustrated and left the site upon seeing the default error message. Then, I started focusing on creating a unique and user-friendly 404 page. It provides useful links and a friendly message to guide users back to the main content. As a result, the on-site time increased, the bounce rate significantly decreased, and users had a more positive perception of my website.

So, today, let’s explore an interesting way to have flexible and meaningful content for a custom 404 page by using custom fields created with Meta Box and displaying them with Breakdance.

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How To Filter Posts By Taxonomy In The Admin Dashboard

How to Filter Posts by Taxonomy in the Admin Dashboard

Managing content on WordPress can become overwhelming as the number of posts grows, whether they are regular blog posts or part of a specific custom post type. Even with taxonomies to categorize posts, searching through large volumes of content remains challenging, especially when you need to find specific information within a particular post.

Therefore, filtering posts is essential to easily find a certain group of content. Since posts are often categorized by taxonomies, we can filter posts based on these terms right in the backend, making the search process faster and more efficient.

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Reasons and Solutions for Slow Loading (Speed Up Website)

Reasons and Solutions for Slow Loading (Speed Up Website)

With a website, visitors not only expect rich content but also demand swift and seamless access to information. Improving website speed not only enhances overall performance but also positively impacts user retention, SEO rankings, and conversion rates. As a result, optimizing website speed has become a top priority for businesses and web developers alike.

Below are some common reasons that lead to slow website loading (sorted by descending level of impact as I think):

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How to Translate Meta Box Custom Field Values for Users and Taxonomies with WPML

How to Translate Meta Box Custom Field Values for Users and Taxonomies with WPML

Having a multilingual website for products, and services is more and more essential in the global economy. And, it’s undeniable that using a translation plugin is an optimal choice to build it.

One in the range of translation plugins, WPML seems like the most popular with a large number of users. You might know that it can help to translate custom fields created with Meta Box a long time ago. And now, the integration between the two plugins is more deep so you can also translate the custom field values easily, especially custom fields for users and taxonomies. We’ll delve into it in this blog. It is one of the applications of Meta Box - WPML compatibility.

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Polylang vs. WordPress Multisite: Which is Better for Your Multilingual Site (Comparison)

Polylang vs. WordPress Multisite: Which is Better for Your Multilingual Site (Comparison)

With the growth of global trade, a multilingual website helps you expand your target market. To build a multi-language site on WordPress, you have many options for managing content and user experience. In addition to various translation plugins, you can also use Multisite to create a multilingual website where each language is a subsite. In this article, I will get deep into comparing this two method, using multisite with the WordPress Multisite and using a translation plugin with a widely trusted translation plugin - Polylang - in detailed functionality.

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How To Display Events Group By Month And Year With Meta Box

How to Display Events Group by Month and Year with Meta Box

Have you ever struggled to keep your events organized on a website? That was exactly the question I asked myself when I was working on an event website a while back. With so many events scheduled throughout the year, I needed a way to make everything easy to browse and manage.

Grouping events by month and year turned out to be the perfect solution. This method not only allows visitors to easily find and browse events based on their dates, but it also lets them quickly locate upcoming activities or review past events in a structured manner. Let’s dig into how to achieve it with Meta Box!

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Tip For License Key Management Remotely Min

Tip for License Key Management Remotely for Multiple Websites Using MainWP

During the process of supporting a Meta Box user, we were taught a way to help manage license keys more optimally and intelligently, especially when managing multiple client sites. It’s using the MainWP Code Snippets Extension. I will share that in this article. You can refer and apply it to your work, for Meta Box, and other plugins as well. Everything will be automatic.

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How To Create A Custom 404 Page P3 Using Mb Views

How to Create a Custom 404 Page - P3 - Using MB Views

From my experience managing websites, I think that a well-designed 404 page can help keep visitors on your site even when they can't find what they're looking for, and reduce bounce rates. That's why we should have decent-enough content for it to encourage visitors to stick around. You may not know how it is at the first time, but you can change it regularly to find out which content will be most sufficient. In today’s practice, I’ll show you how to create a better 404 page with flexible content that you can change anytime without affecting the design using the MB Views extension from Meta Box.

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