Best WordPress Plugin for Custom Fields & Meta Boxes
Here you can explore the huge power of MB Views for getting and displaying data in many special cases without page builders.
Whenever I write a blog post, I like to include related posts to create content connections and help readers dive deeper into the topic. However, as the number of related posts grows, I realized that numbering them and showing the total count could make everything look more organized and improve the reading experience. With the MB Views extension from Meta Box, you can easily add this feature without much hassle.
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Creating an effective coming soon page with a countdown is so incredibly versatile, whether you're announcing an upcoming product launch, displaying the remaining time for a discounted offer, releasing a movie trailer, or simply informing visitors that your website is under maintenance.
I think that a useful coming soon page can build anticipation and encourage visitors to return when your product, service, or site is ready. It's important to include meaningful content that captures their attention, as this can help maintain their interest during the waiting period. The content might change depending on the scenario, like updating the countdown for a film release or changing the messaging for a product launch. That’s why it's important to be able to update the page easily without affecting the overall design.
In this tutorial, we’ll focus on using a coming soon page to notify visitors during website maintenance using the MB Views extension from Meta Box.
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From my experience managing websites, I think that a well-designed 404 page can help keep visitors on your site even when they can't find what they're looking for, and reduce bounce rates. That's why we should have decent-enough content for it to encourage visitors to stick around. You may not know how it is at the first time, but you can change it regularly to find out which content will be most sufficient. In today’s practice, I’ll show you how to create a better 404 page with flexible content that you can change anytime without affecting the design using the MB Views extension from Meta Box.
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After a project of building a website for booking tables with several restaurants for a client, we realized that having a real-time-opening-status is a brilliant feature on this kind of site. So, I’d like to share a way to display the real-time opening status dynamically and automatically right now on this post. I did it easily with the help of MB Views from Meta Box. Let’s see how now!
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MB Blocks is a powerful plugin for creating custom Gutenberg blocks. If using a separate template file to render the block is inconvenient, we have a more optimal way for you: render blocks using views.
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A while back, I tried to create a timeline to show the changelog of our plugins on our website. What seemed like a straightforward task quickly became a puzzle as I tried different methods. It’s because I had some posts written about each version in detail, then I want to show them on the timeline. After a week, I finally found a solution that worked perfectly with the help of the MB Views extension from Meta Box.
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In the header and footer of the WordPress website, you can add custom code such as tracking scripts, meta tags, or custom CSS to connect with external services. Today, let’s try a simple way to add code to the WordPress header and footer with the help of MB Views from Meta Box.
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Providing a number of reading time will help the visitor know in advance how much time it takes to finish reading the post. It might be a key feature to improve the user experience. Let’s find out how to have this reading time number in each article on your WordPress blog. We’ll use the MB Views from Meta Box.
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Whether you're already familiar with the MB Views extension from Meta Box or it's a new thing to your ears, I will tell you right now. In particular, I’ll use that feature in a real case to create a simple reading progress bar in WordPress posts.
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