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Meta Box 2016 year in review

Last updated: August 1, 2024The New Year is here and we wish you health, success, and fun! 2016 is a great year for Meta Box when it reached 200.000 active installs (counted by WordPress.org), excluding users who are using Meta Box as a included module in themes. That is a double from the last year! And we want to […]

Nested, Nested, Nested... Groups is Possible

Last updated: August 8, 2025Today we're very happy to release the version 1.1 of the MB Group extension. This is a minor update with support for multi-level nested groups. The feature is requested by many users for a long time. It's a technical challenge and we're so glad that we can come over it today.

Cloning WYSIWYG is Supported in Meta Box 4.8.3

Last updated: August 8, 2025For a long time, cloning WYSIWYG fields is a big trouble. The WYSIWYG field is a WordPress editor field which is built on TinyMCE editor, a very popular rich text editor for the web. It allows you to add content, format the content, insert rich media into the content such as images, videos, audios or […]

Steps to Fix Problems with Meta Box 4.8.0

Last updated: August 8, 20252 days ago, we released the 4.8.0 version of the Meta Box plugin. This version has a big change in the codebase, especially in the helper function which causes some incompatible bugs for some users. If you have problems using the 4.8.0 version, please follow the following steps to fix it:

Introducing MB Term Meta Extension

Last updated: September 24, 2020I have been asked for adding custom fields to category or tags. And MB Term Meta is my answer! This extension helps you adding custom fields to any taxonomy using the similar syntax of Meta Box. You can set category icon, featured image, color or add any custom data you want.

Meta Box Updates December 2015

Last updated: September 24, 2020The new year is coming very soon and we wish you health, success and fun! 2015 is a successful year for Meta Box when it reached 100.000 active installs (counted by WordPress.org), excluding users who are using Meta Box as a included module in themes. We also released 10 extensions this year, including very popular […]

Introducing Settings Page Extension

Last updated: August 1, 2024For months, I received a lot of requests asking whether Meta Box is possible to create theme options page or settings page for plugins. People asked this because they love the simplicity of the plugin and the beauty of the syntax (FYI the idea of using array syntax is inspired by Options Framework plugin). If […]

Introducing "attributes" for Inputs in Meta Box 4.7

Last updated: September 24, 2020The latest version 4.7 of Meta Box has been just released today with a new improvement which allow users to add custom attributes for inputs like text, URL, email fields. This feature is very helpful if developers want to add something like data-* attribute for their custom JS code.

MB Builder 2.0

Last updated: August 16, 2017Today we're happy to introduction to the new version of MB Builder which has massive improvements, tons of new features. We can't wait for your feedback and of course, let's go through the detail of this update: