Best WordPress Plugin for Custom Fields & Meta Boxes
All interesting knowledge about data stored in custom fields, the way to manage them in some special cases, import/export, etc.
WP All Import is a WordPress plugin that lets you import all types of WordPress and WooCommerce data. It now has a Meta Box Import Add-On that lets you import data into Meta Box custom fields, as well.
In this article, we’ll show you how to perform a basic import of data into Meta Box custom fields.
WP All Export is a WordPress plugin that lets you export all types of WordPress and WooCommerce data. It now has a Meta Box Export Add-On that gives you the ability to export Meta Box custom fields, as well.
In this article, we’ll show you how to perform a basic export of Meta Box custom fields.
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Have you had a ton of posts that contain data on your custom fields? For any reason, you may want to change the ID of the custom field without having an effect on existing data. But, if you only change the ID of the field from the field group settings, the data in the field will be lost. So, how does the data remain intact when changing the field ID? Let’s find it out.
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Now, you know what custom fields is and in the previous post, we stopped in the step “WordPress calls the update_metadata function to store data from custom fields in the database”. In this post, we’ll follow up that flow to figure out how WordPress organizes the database.
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Until now, we’ve known what custom fields is and how to use the functions provided by WordPress to work with custom fields. You’ve prepared everything needed to develop practical applications. But wait, before embarking on doing something new, you had better dig a bit deeper to have thorough understand custom fields' nature. It’s time to find out an answer to the question: “What really happens with custom fields when I click Save post?”. The two coming posts will give you the answers.
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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.
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Custom fields is a way for WordPress to store arbitrary extra data for content (posts and custom post types), such as author name, published date for a book. To make custom fields flexible and compatible with different kinds of data, WordPress designs the meta tables (post meta, term meta, user meta, and comment meta) in the form of key-value. According to that, each custom field is stored as one row in the database. This approach allows developers to store unlimited data regardless of its structure. But, the downside is the rapid bloat of the database. Because the number of custom fields is usually very large. This article will present solutions to optimize the storage of custom fields in the database to help boost your website performance.
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