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Polylang vs. WordPress Multisite: Which is Better for Your Multilingual Site (Comparison)

Polylang vs. WordPress Multisite: Which is Better for Your Multilingual Site (Comparison)

With the growth of global trade, a multilingual website helps you expand your target market. To build a multi-language site on WordPress, you have many options for managing content and user experience. In addition to various translation plugins, you can also use Multisite to create a multilingual website where each language is a subsite. In this article, I will get deep into comparing this two method, using multisite with the WordPress Multisite and using a translation plugin with a widely trusted translation plugin - Polylang - in detailed functionality.

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Tip For License Key Management Remotely Min

Tip for License Key Management Remotely for Multiple Websites Using MainWP

During the process of supporting a Meta Box user, we were taught a way to help manage license keys more optimally and intelligently, especially when managing multiple client sites. It’s using the MainWP Code Snippets Extension. I will share that in this article. You can refer and apply it to your work, for Meta Box, and other plugins as well. Everything will be automatic.

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Mb Views Vs Dynamic Shortcodes Comparison

MB Views vs. Dynamic Shortcodes: More Similarities than You Realized

When you're looking to display dynamic content in WordPress, both MB Views from Meta Box and Dynamic Shortcodes offer powerful solutions, but each has its own strengths. In this in-depth comparison, we'll break down some main aspects that will help you decide which one fits your needs. Here we go!
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9 Tools to Streamline Your Content Marketing Machine

9 Tools to Streamline Your Content Marketing Machine

As a content marketer, it’s important to make sure your content machine is efficient and you and your team have the tools you need to create and promote high-quality content. There are hundreds of content marketing tools available, all of them with their own pros and cons. Below you’ll find eight content marketing tools that will help you with research, writing, graphic design, video creation, publishing, marketing, and project management.

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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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