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Create A Dynamic Landing Page in WordPress Using Custom Field

Create A Dynamic Landing Page in WordPress Using Custom Field

Every business website needs landing page to introduce its products and services. This is where users find the most important information about your company and what you offer. You need to present the advantages of your products or services to encourage users to register or purchase. If you have multiple products or run multiple ad campaigns, you may need to create multiple landing pages for each product or campaign.

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How to Disable Gutenberg and Use the WordPress Classic Editor

How to Disable Gutenberg and Use the WordPress Classic Editor

Gutenberg is the name of the project to create a new editor experience for WordPress. The goal is to create a new post and page editing experience that makes it easy for anyone to create rich post layouts. It's planned to be merged into WordPress core in the version 5.0. Gutenberg will changes the way you create content a lot. You'll be able to add complex elements to the post content via blocks. They can be images with overlay text or a list of items with thumbnails.

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How to Create a Hidden Admin Page in WordPress

How to Create a Hidden Admin Page in WordPress

Admin pages are often used for plugin or theme settings, and sometimes for user guide. However, there are situations you want to add a hidden admin page that only shows under a specific condition, and won't show in the admin menu. Pages such as WordPress welcome page, credit page for new versions are examples. These page are displayed only once when users update their WordPress websites and they contain only information about the new versions. Plugin authors might want to add similar pages that shows a quick start guide for users when they first install their plugins. And this tutorial will show you how to do that.

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Optimizing Database for Custom Fields in WordPress

Optimizing Database for Custom Fields in WordPress

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

Gutenberg and the Future of Meta Box

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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