Meta Box 2023 in Review and 2024 Plan

Meta Box 2023 in Review and 2024 Plan

Happy Lunar New Year! It’s the Year of the Dragon following the Lunar New Year in Vietnam, where the Meta Box team locates. At the beginning of the new year, we usually look back on a year and send to family and friends a wish of prosperity, luck, and success. This is a beautiful tradition that has been through generations.

At this time, we, as Anh Tran, Janessa Tran, and other people behind the Meta Box, would love to wish you all a year full of luck and wonderful opportunities, and everything goes as expected. We also would like to send many thanks to all our dear fellows for always being by our side, using our products, and fully supporting us.

Now, let’s look back to see what we have done in the last year together, and take a look at some main points of the next year’s plan.

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Using the Same Taxonomy for Multiple Post Types in WordPress: Pros and Cons

Using the Same Taxonomy for Multiple Post Types in WordPress: Pros and Cons

In WordPress, you can organize your content using taxonomies. Taxonomies like categories or tags help you keep things organized and easy to find. The interesting thing is that you can use a taxonomy for different post types like you can create a custom taxonomy 'Topic' for both 'Course' post type and 'Event' post type.

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Full Site Editing - P5: What Are Block Patterns in WordPress? How to Create Them?

Full Site Editing - P5: What Are Block Patterns in Gutenberg? How to Create Them?

After the 4 articles in the FSE series, we’ve received a lot of positive feedback from readers. In particular, many of them asked to have one more part about Gutenberg block patterns. So, we came up with a post that has everything you need about this feature, like what block patterns are, their applications, how to create one, and the good resources of block patterns. Let's spend 5 minutes reading now!

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Top Resources to Learn About WordPress Block Theme for Developers

Top Resources to Learn About WordPress Block Theme for Developers

As we mentioned in the article about Full Site Editing and others in this series before, block themes (or block-based themes) and the Full Site Editing (FSE) feature are changing the way we build WordPress sites. In each WordPress version, the block editor is updated with new features until it’s completely integrated with the core. So users, developers, and theme makers surely need to prepare themselves and keep updated every day for this revolution. That’s why finding resources to learn about block themes is important.

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Review Quadrat - a WordPress Block Theme

Review Quadrat - A WordPress Block Theme

Recently, Full Site Editing (FSE) has been constantly mentioned daily in many WordPress forums and communities. This feature is considered an outstanding transformation of the way we work with WordPress, including the transition from traditional themes to block themes.

Block Themes, also known as Block-Based Themes, are the themes that are designed to be compatible perfectly with Gutenberg blocks and full-site editing. There are a few block themes since Full Site Editing (FSE) is still currently under development. The present block themes are generally in a basic state, mainly serving the requirement to research and develop FSE's features.

Along with that, a completely new block theme, named Quadrat, has been developed recently by the Automattic team. This is a pretty complete block theme for blogs and podcast websites with an eye-catching look. Among the existing Gutenberg block themes, this theme is seen as one of the few having its own "personality".

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Gutenberg vs Page Builders - What is Better and Faster? In-depth Comparison

Gutenberg vs. Page Builders - What is Better & Faster? In-depth Comparison

You can build a website with WordPress without much coding skill, or even without touching any line of code. The reason lies in many wonderful tools which help you do it easily. The most popular tools, it’s no doubt to say, are Gutenberg and page builders. At the moment, they have their pros and cons, so it’s not easy to decide which one is the best and overwhelms the other.

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Top Must-Read Blogs for Developers - P3 - JavaScript

Top Must-Read Blogs for Developers - P3 - JavaScript

Over the past 20 years, JavaScript has been the most popular programming language in the world. You can learn it quickly and apply it to various purposes, thus creating more opportunities for your career. That’s why we have selected the five best blogs about JavaScript in this series of top must-read blogs for developers. Maybe there will be at least an appropriate blog for you no matter what level you are at.

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