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Display Personalized Data For Users

How to Display Personalized Data for Users

Every time I need to display dynamic, personalized data for users, I think about how to make everything clear and relevant to the right person.

For example, I’ll display sales representative information of who is responsible for the current user, I mean client, who has logged in to their account already. Each client has their own sales representative, so different clients logged in to their account will see different sales information. This can be super useful to help your client reach out to the account manager easier.

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How to Create a Pricing Table Page - P1 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

How to Create a Pricing Table Page - P1 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

When your products have some pricing plans instead of only one, a well-designed pricing table page will be an intelligent choice to show offering your products or services.

You can also separate the pricing table into a dedicated page or make it to be a section of any page. It’s a piece of cake with the help of a combination of Meta Box and Breakdance.

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How To Count The Number Of Related Posts Using Mb Views

How to Count the Number of Related Posts Using MB Views

Whenever I write a blog post, I like to include related posts to create content connections and help readers dive deeper into the topic. However, as the number of related posts grows, I realized that numbering them and showing the total count could make everything look more organized and improve the reading experience. With the MB Views extension from Meta Box, you can easily add this feature without much hassle.

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How to Create Charts in Posts - Using MB Views

How to Create Charts in Posts - Using MB Views

Using charts to present information is a vivid and easy-to-understand manner for your audience. Whether you want to display statistics, growth trends, or comparisons among many items, charts can make your content stand out and attract the attention of your visitors.

Then, it’s quite easy if you enter data into custom fields and use MB Views from Meta Box to bring it to a chart. Let’s see how in this article.

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How To Create A Coming Soon Page With Countdown P1 Using Mb Views

How to Create a Coming Soon Page with Countdown - P1 - Using MB Views

Creating an effective coming soon page with a countdown is so incredibly versatile, whether you're announcing an upcoming product launch, displaying the remaining time for a discounted offer, releasing a movie trailer, or simply informing visitors that your website is under maintenance.

I think that a useful coming soon page can build anticipation and encourage visitors to return when your product, service, or site is ready. It's important to include meaningful content that captures their attention, as this can help maintain their interest during the waiting period. The content might change depending on the scenario, like updating the countdown for a film release or changing the messaging for a product launch. That’s why it's important to be able to update the page easily without affecting the overall design.

In this tutorial, we’ll focus on using a coming soon page to notify visitors during website maintenance using the MB Views extension from Meta Box.

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How To Create A Full Width Wordpress Dashboard Widget

How to Create a Full-Width WordPress Dashboard Widget

As a regular user of some classic WordPress themes, I often felt frustrated by the narrow widget area in the admin dashboard. The limited space made it challenging to manage and customize widgets effectively, slowing down my workflow.

I sought a solution to expand the widget area to full width to improve that. After some experimentation, I found a straightforward way to achieve this. Right now, I’m excited to share this customization with you guys, helping you create a more user-friendly and efficient WordPress admin dashboard.

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How to Create a Custom 404 Page in WordPress - P4 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

How to Create a Custom 404 Page in WordPress - P4 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

I have encountered situations where users felt frustrated and left the site upon seeing the default error message. Then, I started focusing on creating a unique and user-friendly 404 page. It provides useful links and a friendly message to guide users back to the main content. As a result, the on-site time increased, the bounce rate significantly decreased, and users had a more positive perception of my website.

So, today, let’s explore an interesting way to have flexible and meaningful content for a custom 404 page by using custom fields created with Meta Box and displaying them with Breakdance.

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How To Filter Posts By Taxonomy In The Admin Dashboard

How to Filter Posts by Taxonomy in the Admin Dashboard

Managing content on WordPress can become overwhelming as the number of posts grows, whether they are regular blog posts or part of a specific custom post type. Even with taxonomies to categorize posts, searching through large volumes of content remains challenging, especially when you need to find specific information within a particular post.

Therefore, filtering posts is essential to easily find a certain group of content. Since posts are often categorized by taxonomies, we can filter posts based on these terms right in the backend, making the search process faster and more efficient.

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