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Best WordPress Plugin for Custom Fields & Meta Boxes

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Tutorials on using Meta Box and Meta Box extensions to build real websites and applications.

How To Create A Custom 404 Page P3 Using Mb Views

How to Create a Custom 404 Page - P3 - Using MB Views

From my experience managing websites, I think that a well-designed 404 page can help keep visitors on your site even when they can't find what they're looking for, and reduce bounce rates. That's why we should have decent-enough content for it to encourage visitors to stick around. You may not know how it is at the first time, but you can change it regularly to find out which content will be most sufficient. In today’s practice, I’ll show you how to create a better 404 page with flexible content that you can change anytime without affecting the design using the MB Views extension from Meta Box.

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How To Show Upcoming Events P5 Using Meta Box And Breakdance

How to Show Upcoming Events - P5 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

When our team redesigned a website for a client in the entertainment industry, I noticed that highlighting upcoming events is a good way to boost engagement. Displaying all the events is an easy task, but someone may not know how to filter them by date. So, after researching, I’ve written a series on using custom fields with Meta Box combination with various page builders to do it.

This tutorial is about doing it with Breakdance.

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How to Display Real-time Opening Status Automatically - Using MB Views

How to Display Real-time Opening Status Automatically - Using MB Views

After a project of building a website for booking tables with several restaurants for a client, we realized that having a real-time-opening-status is a brilliant feature on this kind of site. So, I’d like to share a way to display the real-time opening status dynamically and automatically right now on this post. I did it easily with the help of MB Views from Meta Box. Let’s see how now!

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How To Have A Chronological Timeline In Wordpress P2 Using Mb Views

How to Have a Chronological Timeline in WordPress - P2 - Using MB Views

A while back, I tried to create a timeline to show the changelog of our plugins on our website. What seemed like a straightforward task quickly became a puzzle as I tried different methods. It’s because I had some posts written about each version in detail, then I want to show them on the timeline. After a week, I finally found a solution that worked perfectly with the help of the MB Views extension from Meta Box.

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How to Create a Timeline Page - P1 - Using Meta Box and Bricks

How to Create a Timeline Page - P1 - Using Meta Box and Bricks

Sometimes, you should show the content in a timeline format. This type of content is really useful when you want to display the timeline of an event, historical milestones, roadmap, or changelog of a plugin/theme, etc. A logical and clear timeline can help visitors get information easily. In this article, let’s create and display a timeline page using a combination of Meta Box with Bricks.

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How To Create A Custom 404 Page In Wordpress P2 Using Meta Box And Bricks

How to Create a Custom 404 Page in WordPress - P2 - Using Meta Box and Bricks

Having a 404 page helps to increase the probability of keeping visitors on your site even when they do not find the content that they are looking for and also reduces the bounce rate. That's why we should have better content for it to keep them there. The easiest way to have the most accurate content is to change it based on customer insights.

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

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How to Display Opening Hours for Restaurants - P3 - Using Meta Box and Bricks

How to Display Opening Hours for Restaurants - P3 - Using Meta Box and Bricks

On a website for booking tables for several restaurants, we can show the daily opening hours for each one. It helps your customers be more proactive in managing schedules and bookings. It’s a piece of cake to add that information into a single page of each restaurant with the help of Meta Box and Bricks.

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