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Gutenberg and the Future of Meta Box

Last updated: February 4, 2025New Gutenberg editor for WordPress and its serious concerns of backward compatibility with meta box and custom fields API.

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

Last updated: August 1, 2024An in-depth explanation for the difference between custom fields and custom taxonomies and recommendations when to use each of them.

Meta Box 4.12 Released

Last updated: August 2, 2024We'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.

Upgrade is available

Last updated: March 8, 2025A 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 […]

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

Last updated: February 4, 2025We'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.

Premium Users Can Save Generated Meta Boxes

Last updated: August 18, 2021A 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!

Introducing Online Generator

Last updated: August 1, 2024One 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.

Introducing Demo Suite

Last updated: August 1, 2024We 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 […]

Meta Box AIO is available

Last updated: August 12, 2021At the moment, each extension of the plugin Meta Box is provided separately. They acts like a small module that provides only one functionality for one purpose. While this approach is good for continuous development, users might not want that. Some users who purchased the Developer Bundle have suggested a AIO package that includes all […]