Third Party - Meta Box

What is Admin Columns plugin?

Admin Columns is a plugin that helps you manage and organize columns in the posts, users, comments and media lists in the WordPress admin panel. It transforms the WordPress admin screens into beautiful, clear overviews.

The plugin has a free version on WordPress.org and has a PRO version with extra features like: sorting, filtering, inline editing and many integrations with popular WordPress plugins like ACF, Meta Box, WooCommerce, BuddyPress and Yoast SEO.

See the plugin in action in this video tutorial:

Basics- Getting Started

Watch this video on YouTube

Meta Box -- Admin Columns Integrator Features

With the Meta Box integration for Admin Columns Pro, you’ll be able to customize the WordPress list tables for any post type, user or taxonomy by adding columns for the fields defined in your meta boxes. And with the power of the Admin Columns pro features, you’ll be able to easily search, edit, sort and export your data right from the overview pages.

The integration provides the following features and more:

Search Meta Box content on the list table

Quick Edit Meta Box data (inline editing)

Export Meta Box fields to CSV

Support for Meta Box extensions

Custom Table Support

Admin Columns Integration vs. MB Admin Columns

You might notice that this extension is similar to our MB Admin Columns extension. The difference is that Admin Columns plugin has more features and provide UI for creating columns. If you need something like drag and drop to add columns, then this is the right solution for you. However, if you need something that just works and performant, then MB Admin Columns is a better solution.

This extension allows you to search by the content of Meta Box fields, including groups and custom tables, with SearchWP. It works with all field types and support all extensions of Meta Box.

If you are not familiar to SearchWP, it’s a plugin that improves the default WordPress search functionality. With that plugin, you can search not only by post title and post content (which are the default) but also inside shortcode content, PDF file, custom fields, and more.

It uses its own algorithm that works with plain text values and serialized values. That’s great because a lot of data saved in the post meta are arrays, and they’re serialized before saving into the database as text (similar to what Meta Box Group does).

Developers also can define the weight for each searching criteria. In short, SearchWP lets you find any content in the database without writing any line of code.

See the below screenshot to see how it works with Meta Box fields:

How SearchWP works with Meta Box fields - search by custom fields in WordPress — Preview of Meta Box – SearchWP integration

MB Custom Table Support

The interesting thing is that it works with MB Custom Table as well, allowing you to search values in custom tables.

How SearchWP works with Meta Box - search by custom fields in custom tables — SearchWP also works with custom fields in custom tables

All Meta Box fields and all custom tables are grouped in the dropdown for easier finding. The UI is very friendly and straight-forward.

Build Complex Website Now Made Easy

With SearchWP – Meta Box Integration extension, you can implement a powerful search engine on your website. It’s super powerful and useful if you have a classified website or an e-commerce website.

Note that if your website is not much complicated, SearchWP might be not the right choice. Follow our guide to make your own queries to get the right posts by custom fields.

If you needs something more, like filtering the posts by custom fields, then you might want to try FacetWP and Meta Box – FacetWP Integrator.

Download Meta Box – SearchWP Integration Extension

The extension has its official page where you can find out more information about it.

To download the extension, you need to purchase a license of SearchWP. And then, download the extension from your account page.

Credit

The extension is created and maintained officially by Jonathan Christopher, the author of SearchWP.

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Meta Box – Admin Columns Integrator