Latest updates for Meta Box and Meta Box extensions. Knowing what we have improved for the plugins.
Embeding the meta boxes in the frontend is a frequent question from our users. And today, we're happy to release a new extension to resolve this problem - MB Frontend Submission. This extension not only allows you to put meta box form in the frontend, but also handle the post submission as well. So you can use it as a true solution for user-submitted content.
Continue reading "Introducing MB Frontend Submission Extension" →
We're happy to release the new version of the MB Group that supports collapsing/expanding groups with a new UI. This version truly bring the power and usefulness of the groups to our users. With it, you can collapse a very long group, drag and drop it to reorder and save that collapsible state. So next time you edit that post, that group is collapsed automatically.
Continue reading "Collapsible Groups with Better UI and Control" →
Since version 2.2, developers can use the MB Builder to export PHP code that can be used on another websites without the extension. You can use MB Builder to prototype the custom fields to test. When everything works, you can export the PHP code to use to increase the website performance.
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The 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 say thank you to you all to support us and help us make the software a better tool for both developers and users.
Today 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.
Continue reading "Nested, Nested, Nested... Groups is Possible" →
For 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 any HTML code and even shortcodes added by WordPress plugins. As a WYSIWYG editor, you will see how the content actual look right after you enter it in the editor.
Continue reading "Cloning WYSIWYG is Supported in Meta Box 4.8.3" →
2 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:
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I 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.
The 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 extensions such as MB Group or MB Conditional Logic. Next year, we hope to release more than 10 extensions which cover many areas of usage for you.
The latest month of 2015 is the month of free extensions of Meta Box when they're all updated to new API.
