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How does WordPress Store Custom Fields? #1: Data flow

Last updated: August 2, 2024August 22, 2018

Until now, we’ve known what custom fields is and how to use the functions provided by WordPress to work with custom fields. You’ve prepared everything needed to develop practical applications. But wait, before embarking on doing something new, you had better dig a bit deeper to have thorough understand custom fields' nature. It’s time to find out an answer to the question: “What really happens with custom fields when I click Save post?”. The two coming posts will give you the answers.

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Applications of Custom Fields in WordPress

Last updated: July 19, 2024August 8, 2018

As we know, custom fields is used to add more data to some objects in WordPress such as posts, pages, taxonomies, users, and comments. The two main purposes of custom fields are to describe and filter those objects. In this post, we'll learn what specific applications custom fields has in reality.

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Get Posts by Custom Fields in WordPress - Part 1

Last updated: August 2, 2024July 26, 2018

In the previous articles, we've known about what Custom Fields is and the application of custom fields which allows users to add arbitrary information into posts. But what do you do after that? In the recent post, you also learned how to add custom fields programmatically and display them in your theme. But you’ll see a shortcoming if there is no classification and searching. This post will guide you on how to get posts by custom fields in WordPress and we'll create an interesting application: advanced search.

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How to Create Custom Meta Boxes & Custom Fields in WordPress?

Last updated: August 2, 2024July 19, 2018

The default custom fields functionality in WordPress is to help end-users add content and customize their websites fast and easily. However, it is limited to only text fields and thus, is not enough in most cases. Then you may want to look for a plugin that can help you create fields in any type to save any kind of data as Meta Box plugin, it’s so easy. But you know what, even when you don’t want to use any plugin from others, you can create one by yourselves to create new custom fields in your totally new types.

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Easy Way to Add Custom Fields in WordPress Without Plugins

Last updated: August 2, 2024July 12, 2018

In the previous post, we have learned the basic concepts of custom fields and their applications. In this post, we will learn how to add custom fields to a WordPress site without coding or using a third-party plugin.

We have said in the latest post that WordPress has a default function that helps end-users manage custom fields in a simple way. You may add as many fields as you want with any names you like.

Let's get started to find them out!

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What is Custom Fields in WordPress?

Last updated: January 9, 2025July 5, 2018

Custom Fields is an important and useful feature in WordPress and bring us a very high customization ability. So, let's find out the basics, relevant techniques, and excellent applications of Custom Fields in this series.

If you've already reached WordPress, you also heard that it is a top platform for quickly building blogs. Furthermore, its partial actual power is Custom Fields, which took part in the WordPress' strong development and taking up leading position in CMS over previous 15 years.

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How to Use Composer to Install Meta Box Extensions From wordpress.org

Last updated: August 1, 2024June 1, 2018

Not long time ago, I introduced Composer support for the premium extensions of Meta Box. However, in the actual project, sometimes you need free Meta Box extensions hosted on wordpress.org. Extensions such as MB Rest API and MB Relationships are really useful for some of your projects. Then how to use Composer for the WordPress plugins on wordpress.org? This article will show you how to do that.

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How to Get Field Settings by Field ID?

Last updated: August 1, 2024May 17, 2018

When creating a custom meta box, you also create a list of custom fields, each of which is an array of field settings. You probably will need to refer to field's name, field's options array (in a select field) or other settings later in your code. So, how to get the field settings array by field ID?

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How to Create a Contact Form Using Meta Box

Last updated: July 18, 2024May 2, 2018

The contact form makes it simple and reliable for anyone to leave their information for buying your product, looking for consulting, or just contacting your brand. Creating a form helps to improve conversion a lot as well as bring more leads. And you know what, Meta Box can help you create a contact form in WordPress very easily.

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