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How to Create Add To Calendar Buttons for Your Events

How to Create Add To Calendar Buttons for Your Events

If you have an event, a sale promotion, or a coming soon page that has a countdown timer, you should create an “Add to Calendar” button to help users add your event to their calendar via the .ics file. This .ics file can be opened by many popular calendar applications such as Outlook, Google calendar, or Windows Calendar. Thanks to that, readers can remember or create reminders to join your event.

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How to Create Download Buttons Using Custom Fields with Meta Box Plugin

How to Create Download Buttons in WordPress - Using Custom Fields

The Internet allows us to chat, exchange, search for news, share experiences, and download documents, gadgets, applications, etc. Besides saving documentation from websites, you can share your documents with users on the WordPress website. Creating a download button using custom fields is not a bad idea - it looks beautiful, professional, and not difficult to create at all.

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gumroad vs fastspring

Gumroad vs. FastSpring: Which E-commerce Platform is Best for Selling WordPress Plugins?

It's no secret that we used Gumroad to sell Meta Box extensions and then switched to FastSpring a few months ago. Both e-commerce platforms are great and easy to integrate with WordPress. There are some pros and cons of each platform that might be suitable in different cases, which I'm going to reveal in this post.

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How to Add Custom Fields to Display Banners using Meta Box Plugin

How to Add Custom Fields to Display Banners using Meta Box Plugin

Are you getting stuck on placing a banner on all pages of the website as well as customizing the size, title, image, ... on the banner? Don’t worry, this can be done easily by creating a settings page on the back end, and then add some custom fields. Each custom field is a parameter to customize the banner. After that, just use a shortcode to display the banner on the page you want.

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How to Add a Pagination and a Search Box in WordPress Editor with Meta Box Plugin

Easily Add Paginations & Search Boxes in WordPress Editor with Meta Box

Rendering all the pre-made data of a custom field at once on the screen in the backend can cause the post or page editor to look very confusing. Adding pagination to separate those values into pages, and also providing a search box to search any value right in the field will come in handy.

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