In the State of the Word 2016, Matt Mullenweg said that one of three main focuses of WordPress in the next year will be the editor, which will be block-based and unify widgets, interface for shortcodes. The result is the new the Gutenberg editor, which was first introduced to the public at WordCamp Europe 2017. However, it raises many concerns with the existing meta box API. In this post, we’ll take a deep look at those problems and the future of the Meta Box plugin (and similar plugins/frameworks).
Custom Fields vs. Custom Taxonomies, when to (not) use?
Today, a lot of developers use custom fields to store data for their custom post types. Plugins for custom fields such as Meta Box provide an easy way to create them with tons of options. Developers don’t need to handle the UI, outputting and saving data. But are custom fields always good? Do we misuse them?
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Meta Box 4.12 Released
We’re happy to announce the release of Meta Box 4.12 today. This is a minor update with a big improvement for the meta storage and some interesting features. If you’re using old version of Meta Box, please update now.
Upgrade is available
A few days ago, we launched a new design for metabox.io and introducing a Lifetime Bundle. The great thing about lifetime bundle is you buy once and have all extensions forever, including the updates and support. But you already bought a Core Bundle or Developer Bundle? Never mind, the upgrade is available for all users of Core Bundle and Developer Bundle. And you have to pay just the difference in value.
Meta Box Redesigned
During the last 2 weeks, we’ve been working on the redesign for Meta Box. This is the 2nd theme for Meta Box. The previous one was made in 2014 which is a little out-dated.
Helper function now works for term meta, user meta and settings page
We’ve just released new versions for Meta Box, MB Term Meta, MB User Meta and MB Settings Page. In these releases, we’ve made the helper function work for all of them. This helps reducing troubles for developers when retrieving meta values from our premium extensions.
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Premium Users Can Save Generated Meta Boxes
A week ago, we published the Online Generator for all people to help them creating custom fields and meta boxes faster. Today, we introduce an improvements of that tool for premium users – saving end editing generated meta boxes!
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Introducing Online Generator
One of the most valuable feedback from our survey is make it easier to get started with the plugin. While we put a lot of effort to improve our documentation (live search and many tutorials), beginners still have some difficulty to use the powerful plugin. That’s why we create Online Generator tool.
Introducing Demo Suite
We often receive questions asking about the demo for Meta Box plugin and the extensions. People want to see how they work in reality. And because most of the extensions required custom coding, the task of creating a demo website is delayed until now. Today we’re happy to release the demo suite website, which includes the demos for almost all premium and free extensions.
Visit demo website: http://demo.metabox.io
Username: demo, password: demo
There are 15 demos available at the moment and will be more in the future. We hope you enjoy it. And if you find any problem, please let us know via the Contact page.