Latest updates for Meta Box and Meta Box extensions. Knowing what we have improved for the plugins.
You want users to register for an account on your website? And they must fill out additional information in their profile? But you don’t know how to create a user registration and user profile forms. Then use the MB User Profile plugin.
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Normally, the data saved in a custom field is stored in one row only in the database, even when it is a cloneable or repeater field. Storing values in a row helps reduce the database size, but it’s so difficult to query posts by cloneable fields' values. Then, we should convert its data to be stored in multiple rows. It helps to improve query performance and brings some other benefits in terms of management and flexibility in expanding and updating data. Let’s follow this tutorial to learn how to do it.
One of the most important features of Meta Box is field cloning. It allows you to create unlimited clones of fields' inputs. This feature is also called repeatable fields in other plugins. In Meta Box, it's built-in (free) and is supported in all fields, no matter that field is a simple input, a gallery (image_advanced) or a group.
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Today, we're happy to announce that we have added Composer support for all Meta Box extensions. This feature has been long awaited. It's available now and you can start using Meta Box extensions as truly libraries for your plugins or websites (if you manage your website via Composer!).
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It's almost a year since Gutenberg was born. There was a lot of concerns about this editor, especially the compatibility with meta boxes. We have an in-depth article on this topic half a year ago. Since then, Gutenberg has significant changes and in this article, we want to update the compatibility between Meta Box and Gutenberg so that users are safe using Meta Box in the future.
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Creating relationships from posts to posts is a common question for WordPress developers. Previously, you can do that with the post field type in Meta Box. But that's not really the true solution, because you hardly create bi-directional relationships. Besides, querying by custom fields is not recommended.
Sometimes, you may want to show product images, a portfolio, or just a photography album on your site. So, the image gallery is very helpful. You can upload images to your website via a custom field then display them as a gallery on a page.
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2017 was a great year for Meta Box. The number of users, the number of extensions and even the revenue have increased significantly. Let's take a look at what Meta Box has achieved and what's the plan for 2018.
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Meta Box 4.13.0 has just been released today. This is a version with some interesting features that we think you will love. Let's see them in details:
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