Not long time ago, I introduced Composer support for the premium extensions of Meta Box. However, in the actual project, sometimes you need free Meta Box extensions hosted on wordpress.org. Extensions such as MB Rest API and MB Relationships are really useful for some of your projects. Then how to use Composer for the WordPress plugins on wordpress.org? This article will show you how to do that.

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A week ago, we introduced the “clone as multiple” feature, which allows you to store cloneable values in multiple rows in the database. To make it works with your existing data, we make it optional and is turned off by default. However, some of you might want to convert the existing data to the new format, which allows you to perform a query based on custom field’s value. In this tutorial, I’ll show you a quick way to convert the existing custom field values to the new format and make “clone as multiple” feature works for you.

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When creating a custom meta box, you also create a list of custom fields, each of which is an array of field settings. You probably will need to refer to field’s name, field’s options array (in a select field) or other settings later in your code. So, how to get the field settings array by field ID?

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