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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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Mb Views Vs Dynamic Shortcodes Comparison

MB Views vs. Dynamic Shortcodes: More Similarities than You Realized

When you're looking to display dynamic content in WordPress, both MB Views from Meta Box and Dynamic Shortcodes offer powerful solutions, but each has its own strengths. In this in-depth comparison, we'll break down some main aspects that will help you decide which one fits your needs. Here we go!
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How To Show Upcoming Events P5 Using Meta Box And Breakdance

How to Show Upcoming Events - P5 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

When our team redesigned a website for a client in the entertainment industry, I noticed that highlighting upcoming events is a good way to boost engagement. Displaying all the events is an easy task, but someone may not know how to filter them by date. So, after researching, I’ve written a series on using custom fields with Meta Box combination with various page builders to do it.

This tutorial is about doing it with Breakdance.

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How to Display Real-time Opening Status Automatically - Using MB Views

How to Display Real-time Opening Status Automatically - Using MB Views

After a project of building a website for booking tables with several restaurants for a client, we realized that having a real-time-opening-status is a brilliant feature on this kind of site. So, I’d like to share a way to display the real-time opening status dynamically and automatically right now on this post. I did it easily with the help of MB Views from Meta Box. Let’s see how now!

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How To Display Related Posts Based On A Shared Relationship With Meta Box

How to Display Related Posts Based on a Shared Relationship with Meta Box

When developing a website for the event, I realized that helping readers easily find related events, artists, or sessions without searching manually is very useful. This approach is particularly useful when you want to showcase related events, products within the same category, or other articles by the same authors or contributors. After some trials, I found an effective solution with the relationship feature from Meta Box, and I'm excited to share it with you!

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Meta Box Update: Clone Empty Start

Meta Box Update: Clone Empty Start

Based on feedback from users, we've just released a new feature for our cloneable fields. Previously, there were always visible inputs for you to enter data for cloneable fields. And when you want more instances, you need to click the “+ Add New” button.

From now on, you can decide to hide all inputs at first, and when you need to enter data, you’ll need to click the “+ Add New” button. This means that there may be no items, instead of at least one as before. This update is also a step forward in the UX/UI of Meta Box.

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