Best WordPress Plugin for Custom Fields & Meta Boxes
Learn about create, add, edit, analyze custom fields to manage dynamic data for your website.
Bunching custom fields aim to rearrange the related custom fields into one group. For instance, one group of contact information contains related custom fields such as name, phone number, address and email. Grouping may make the custom fields look better and more logical when they display. In addition, it brings some other benefits of organizing data afterward.
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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.
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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Today, a lot of developers use custom fields to store data for their custom post types. Plugins for custom fields such as Meta Box provide an easy way to create them with tons of options. Developers don't need to handle the UI, outputting, and saving data. But are custom fields always good? Do we misuse them?
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