Latest updates for Meta Box and Meta Box extensions. Knowing what we have improved for the plugins.
A while back I got an email from Jackie and I just had to share it with you.
I hear stories like this a lot from WordPress developers trying desperately to building custom meta boxes and custom fields in WordPress. But this one really hit home because you can feel the pain:
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In the State of the Word 2016, Matt Mullenweg said that one of three main focuses of WordPress in the next year will be the editor, which will be block-based and unify widgets, interface for shortcodes. The result is the new the Gutenberg editor, which was first introduced to the public at WordCamp Europe 2017. However, it raises many concerns with the existing meta box API. In this post, we'll take a deep look at those problems and the future of the Meta Box plugin (and similar plugins/frameworks).
We're happy to announce the release of Meta Box 4.12 today. This is a minor update with a big improvement for the meta storage and some interesting features. If you're using old version of Meta Box, please update now.
A few days ago, we launched a new design for metabox.io and introducing a Lifetime Bundle. The great thing about lifetime bundle is you buy once and have all extensions forever, including the updates and support. But you already bought a Core Bundle or Developer Bundle? Never mind, the upgrade is available for all users of Core Bundle and Developer Bundle. And you have to pay just the difference in value.
If you already bought Core Bundle, you're able to upgrade either to Developer Bundle or Lifetime Bundle. If you already bought Developer Bundle, you're able to upgrade to Lifetime Bundle.
To upgrade, just go to My Account page and you'll see a notice with a pay button. Simply clicking that button and you're done! Please remember that you don't need to pay for full price. You have to pay only the difference in value.
For example, if you have Developer Bundle ($199), upgrading to Lifetime Bundle takes only $300 ($499 - $199). So, if you haven't upgrade your bundle, it's time to do that. It's worth your money!
But if you can't upgrade now, it's totally fine. You can upgrade anytime you want.
If you find any issue upgrading, please let us know in the comments.
Updated 2020: Due to change in payment gateway, upgrades are NOT available at the moment. If you buy a bundle and then want to upgrade to a higher bundle, please let us know within 14 days. We can issue the refund for the previous buy.
We've just released new versions for Meta Box, MB Term Meta, MB User Meta and MB Settings Page. In these releases, we've made the helper function work for all of them. This helps reducing troubles for developers when retrieving meta values from our premium extensions.
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A week ago, we published the Online Generator for all people to help them creating custom fields and meta boxes faster. Today, we introduce an improvement of that tool for premium users - saving end editing generated meta boxes!
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One of the most valuable feedback from our survey is to make it easier to get started with the plugin. While we put a lot of effort to improve our documentation (live search and many tutorials), beginners still have some difficulty using the powerful plugin. That's why we create Online Generator tool.
We often receive questions asking about the demo for Meta Box plugin and the extensions. People want to see how they work in reality. And because most of the extensions required custom coding, the task of creating a demo website is delayed until now. Today we're happy to release the demo suite website, which includes the demos for almost all premium and free extensions.
Visit demo website: https://demo.metabox.io
Username: demo, password: demo
There are 15 demos available at the moment and will be more in the future. We hope you enjoy it. And if you find any problem, please let us know via the Contact page.
At the moment, each extension of the plugin Meta Box is provided separately. They acts like a small module that provides only one functionality for one purpose. While this approach is good for continuous development, users might not want that. Some users who purchased the Developer Bundle have suggested a AIO package that includes all the extension in a plugin. This way, they only need to install 1 plugin instead of 15, keeping the Plugins page clean and still have all the functionality.
