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Optimizing Database for Custom Fields in WordPress

Last updated: July 19, 2024September 27, 2017

Custom fields is a way for WordPress to store arbitrary extra data for content (posts and custom post types), such as author name, published date for a book. To make custom fields flexible and compatible with different kinds of data, WordPress designs the meta tables (post meta, term meta, user meta, and comment meta) in the form of key-value. According to that, each custom field is stored as one row in the database. This approach allows developers to store unlimited data regardless of its structure. But, the downside is the rapid bloat of the database. Because the number of custom fields is usually very large. This article will present solutions to optimize the storage of custom fields in the database to help boost your website performance.

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Gutenberg and the Future of Meta Box

Last updated: August 1, 2024August 10, 2017

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).

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Custom Fields vs. Custom Taxonomies, When to (Not) Use?

Last updated: August 1, 2024July 11, 2017

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

Last updated: August 2, 2024July 4, 2017

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.

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Upgrade is available

Last updated: September 17, 2021June 29, 2017

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.

If you already bought Core Bundle, you're able to upgrade either to Developer Bundle or Lifetime Bundle. If you already bought Developer Bundle, you're able to upgrade to Lifetime Bundle.

To upgrade, just go to My Account page and you'll see a notice with a pay button. Simply clicking that button and you're done! Please remember that you don't need to pay for full price. You have to pay only the difference in value.

For example, if you have Developer Bundle ($199), upgrading to Lifetime Bundle takes only $300 ($499 - $199). So, if you haven't upgrade your bundle, it's time to do that. It's worth your money!

But if you can't upgrade now, it's totally fine. You can upgrade anytime you want.

If you find any issue upgrading, please let us know in the comments.

Updated 2020: Due to change in payment gateway, upgrades are NOT available at the moment. If you buy a bundle and then want to upgrade to a higher bundle, please let us know within 14 days. We can issue the refund for the previous buy.

Helper Function Now Works for Term Meta, User Meta and Settings Page

Last updated: August 1, 2024May 27, 2017

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

Last updated: August 18, 2021May 20, 2017

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 improvement of that tool for premium users - saving end editing generated meta boxes!

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Introducing Online Generator

Last updated: August 1, 2024May 11, 2017

One of the most valuable feedback from our survey is to 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 using the powerful plugin. That's why we create Online Generator tool.

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Introducing Demo Suite

Last updated: August 1, 2024April 14, 2017

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: https://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.