After almost a month working, we're happy to announce that the next premium extension Geolocation is released. This extension can help you to add information about a location (address, town, post code, state, country, etc.) to your custom post type. It's extremely useful for listings websites such as real-estate, rental or events.
MB Settings Page Now Supports Tab Style
Have you ever used MB Settings Page extension? If you haven't, the following reason will tell you why you should use it now!
The latest version of the extension has an interesting feature that allows you to create a settings page with the same style as normal WordPress settings page with tabs and sections.
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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.
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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Steps to Fix Problems with Meta Box 4.8.0
2 days ago, we released the 4.8.0 version of the Meta Box plugin. This version has a big change in the codebase, especially in the helper function which causes some incompatible bugs for some users. If you have problems using the 4.8.0 version, please follow the following steps to fix it:
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Introducing MB Term Meta Extension
I have been asked for adding custom fields to category or tags. And MB Term Meta is my answer!
This extension helps you adding custom fields to any taxonomy using the similar syntax of Meta Box. You can set category icon, featured image, color or add any custom data you want.
Meta Box Updates December 2015
The new year is coming very soon and we wish you health, success and fun! 2015 is a successful year for Meta Box when it reached 100.000 active installs (counted by WordPress.org), excluding users who are using Meta Box as a included module in themes.
We also released 10 extensions this year, including very popular extensions such as Meta Box Group or Meta Box Conditional Logic. Next year, we hope to release more than 10 extensions which cover many areas of usage for you.
The latest month of 2015 is the month of free extensions of Meta Box when they're all updated to new API.
Introducing Settings Page Extension
For months, I received a lot of requests asking whether Meta Box is possible to create theme options page or settings page for plugins. People asked this because they love the simplicity of the plugin and the beauty of the syntax (FYI the idea of using array syntax is inspired by Options Framework plugin). If they can integrate Meta Box into WordPress themes for adding custom data for posts, then why can't they do the same for theme options?
Introducing "attributes" for Inputs in Meta Box 4.7
The latest version 4.7 of Meta Box has been just released today with a new improvement which allow users to add custom attributes for inputs like text, URL, email fields. This feature is very helpful if developers want to add something like data-* attribute for their custom JS code.
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