Guide - Page 29 - Meta Box

How to Create a Hidden Admin Page in WordPress

Last updated: October 12, 2021November 29, 2017

Admin pages are often used for plugin or theme settings, and sometimes for user guide. However, there are situations you want to add a hidden admin page that only shows under a specific condition, and won't show in the admin menu. Pages such as WordPress welcome page, credit page for new versions are examples. These page are displayed only once when users update their WordPress websites and they contain only information about the new versions. Plugin authors might want to add similar pages that shows a quick start guide for users when they first install their plugins. And this tutorial will show you how to do that.

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Optimizing Database for Custom Fields in WordPress

Last updated: July 19, 2024September 27, 2017

Custom fields is a way for WordPress to store arbitrary extra data for content (posts and custom post types), such as author name, published date for a book. To make custom fields flexible and compatible with different kinds of data, WordPress designs the meta tables (post meta, term meta, user meta, and comment meta) in the form of key-value. According to that, each custom field is stored as one row in the database. This approach allows developers to store unlimited data regardless of its structure. But, the downside is the rapid bloat of the database. Because the number of custom fields is usually very large. This article will present solutions to optimize the storage of custom fields in the database to help boost your website performance.

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Custom Fields vs. Custom Taxonomies, When to (Not) Use?

Last updated: August 1, 2024July 11, 2017

Today, a lot of developers use custom fields to store data for their custom post types. Plugins for custom fields such as Meta Box provide an easy way to create them with tons of options. Developers don't need to handle the UI, outputting, and saving data. But are custom fields always good? Do we misuse them?

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WordPress Beginner Guide for Meta Box

Last updated: August 19, 2024February 9, 2017

Meta Box is one of the best WordPress plugins for adding custom fields and meta boxes. It launched in 2010, as the first custom fields plugin for developers. And until Dec. 2016, it has been downloaded 1,300,000+ times and had active installs 200,000+. Due to our survey, more than 90% users are developers who are satisfied with our functional plugins. But we still believe anyone can install Meta Box and benefit from it. So today we would like to show a general guide for WordPress beginners to enjoy Meta Box. And as for the developers, we hope you can get something useful here to minimize your work.

So let's dig in…

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