Whenever I write a blog post, I like to include related posts to create content connections and help readers dive deeper into the topic. However, as the number of related posts grows, I realized that numbering them and showing the total count could make everything look more organized and improve the reading experience. With the MB Views extension from Meta Box, you can easily add this feature without much hassle.
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Using charts to present information is a vivid and easy-to-understand manner for your audience. Whether you want to display statistics, growth trends, or comparisons among many items, charts can make your content stand out and attract the attention of your visitors.
Then, it’s quite easy if you enter data into custom fields and use MB Views from Meta Box to bring it to a chart. Let’s see how in this article.
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Creating an effective coming soon page with a countdown is so incredibly versatile, whether you're announcing an upcoming product launch, displaying the remaining time for a discounted offer, releasing a movie trailer, or simply informing visitors that your website is under maintenance.
I think that a useful coming soon page can build anticipation and encourage visitors to return when your product, service, or site is ready. It's important to include meaningful content that captures their attention, as this can help maintain their interest during the waiting period. The content might change depending on the scenario, like updating the countdown for a film release or changing the messaging for a product launch. That’s why it's important to be able to update the page easily without affecting the overall design.
In this tutorial, we’ll focus on using a coming soon page to notify visitors during website maintenance using the MB Views extension from Meta Box.
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As a regular user of some classic WordPress themes, I often felt frustrated by the narrow widget area in the admin dashboard. The limited space made it challenging to manage and customize widgets effectively, slowing down my workflow.
I sought a solution to expand the widget area to full width to improve that. After some experimentation, I found a straightforward way to achieve this. Right now, I’m excited to share this customization with you guys, helping you create a more user-friendly and efficient WordPress admin dashboard.
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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.
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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Displaying before-and-after images in an interactive way is a powerful tool for showing transformations. It can let your audience visually compare changes or differences. Just drag between the images then they can see a more dynamic comparison.
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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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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.
