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WordPress Beginner guide for Meta Box

WordPress Beginner Guide for Meta Box

Meta Box is one of the best WordPress plugins for adding custom fields and meta boxes. It launched in 2010, as the first custom fields plugin for developers. And until Dec. 2016, it has been downloaded 1,300,000+ times and had active installs 200,000+. Due to our survey, more than 90% users are developers who are satisfied with our functional plugins. But we still believe anyone can install Meta Box and benefit from it. So today we would like to show a general guide for WordPress beginners to enjoy Meta Box. And as for the developers, we hope you can get something useful here to minimize your work.

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Meta Box 2016 year in review

The New Year is here and we wish you health, success, and fun! 2016 is a great year for Meta Box when it reached 200.000 active installs (counted by WordPress.org), excluding users who are using Meta Box as a included module in themes. That is a double from the last year! And we want to say thank you to you all to support us and help us make the software a better tool for both developers and users.

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Introducing MB Admin Columns Extension 2

Introducing MB Admin Columns Extension

Whoever you are, a WordPress user or plugin developer, adding custom columns to the admin screens for All posts or custom post types is one of the common tasks. This gives you an overview of your content to understand and manage better. However, WordPress by default shows only the post title and date which is very limited.

As a Meta Box user, now you can solve this problem with MB Admin Columns extension. This extension helps you to show any custom field in custom columns of the All posts screen without coding skill required. The only thing you have to do is adding just a single line to the field's parameter and everything is done automatically for you. If you know how to use Meta Box, then you already know how to use this extension.

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Cloning WYSIWYG is Supported in Meta Box 4.8.3

For a long time, cloning WYSIWYG fields is a big trouble. The WYSIWYG field is a WordPress editor field which is built on TinyMCE editor, a very popular rich text editor for the web. It allows you to add content, format the content, insert rich media into the content such as images, videos, audios or any HTML code and even shortcodes added by WordPress plugins. As a WYSIWYG editor, you will see how the content actual look right after you enter it in the editor.

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