Now, you know what custom fields is and in the previous post, we stopped in the step “WordPress calls the update_metadata function to store data from custom fields in the database”. In this post, we’ll follow up that flow to figure out how WordPress organizes the database.
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Bunching custom fields aim to rearrange the related custom fields into one group. For instance, one group of contact information contains related custom fields such as name, phone number, address and email. Grouping may make the custom fields look better and more logical when they display. In addition, it brings some other benefits of organizing data afterward.
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Until now, we’ve known what custom fields is and how to use the functions provided by WordPress to work with custom fields. You’ve prepared everything needed to develop practical applications. But wait, before embarking on doing something new, you had better dig a bit deeper to have thorough understand custom fields' nature. It’s time to find out an answer to the question: “What really happens with custom fields when I click Save post?”. The two coming posts will give you the answers.
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As we know, custom fields is used to add more data to some objects in WordPress such as posts, pages, taxonomies, users, and comments. The two main purposes of custom fields are to describe and filter those objects. In this post, we'll learn what specific applications custom fields has in reality.
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There is one more nice week with our great upgrade of extensions. We've tried to make the plugin more and more powerful and flexible to use, so follow up our updates to get full of Meta Box's power. Now, let's see what we did last week!
In the previous articles, we've known about what Custom Fields is and the application of custom fields which allows users to add arbitrary information into posts. But what do you do after that? In the recent post, you also learned how to add custom fields programmatically and display them in your theme. But you’ll see a shortcoming if there is no classification and searching. This post will guide you on how to get posts by custom fields in WordPress and we'll create an interesting application: advanced search.
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Today, we've just released a new minor update for Meta Box - version 4.15.0. This version includes a new osm field type for OpenStreetMap, along with some improvements for performance. Let's see what's new below.
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The default custom fields functionality in WordPress is to help end-users add content and customize their websites fast and easily. However, it is limited to only text fields and thus, is not enough in most cases. Then you may want to look for a plugin that can help you create fields in any type to save any kind of data as Meta Box plugin, it’s so easy. But you know what, even when you don’t want to use any plugin from others, you can create one by yourselves to create new custom fields in your totally new types.
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