Meta Box

Best WordPress Plugin for Custom Fields & Meta Boxes

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Looking for a solution for your problem? Here are guides on using Meta Box and WordPress plugins/code to solve them.

How To Filter Posts By Taxonomy In The Admin Dashboard

How to Filter Posts by Taxonomy in the Admin Dashboard

Managing content on WordPress can become overwhelming as the number of posts grows, whether they are regular blog posts or part of a specific custom post type. Even with taxonomies to categorize posts, searching through large volumes of content remains challenging, especially when you need to find specific information within a particular post.

Therefore, filtering posts is essential to easily find a certain group of content. Since posts are often categorized by taxonomies, we can filter posts based on these terms right in the backend, making the search process faster and more efficient.

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How to Translate Meta Box Custom Field Values for Users and Taxonomies with WPML

How to Translate Meta Box Custom Field Values for Users and Taxonomies with WPML

Having a multilingual website for products, and services is more and more essential in the global economy. And, it’s undeniable that using a translation plugin is an optimal choice to build it.

One in the range of translation plugins, WPML seems like the most popular with a large number of users. You might know that it can help to translate custom fields created with Meta Box a long time ago. And now, the integration between the two plugins is more deep so you can also translate the custom field values easily, especially custom fields for users and taxonomies. We’ll delve into it in this blog. It is one of the applications of Meta Box - WPML compatibility.

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How To Display Events Group By Month And Year With Meta Box

How to Display Events Group by Month and Year with Meta Box

Have you ever struggled to keep your events organized on a website? That was exactly the question I asked myself when I was working on an event website a while back. With so many events scheduled throughout the year, I needed a way to make everything easy to browse and manage.

Grouping events by month and year turned out to be the perfect solution. This method not only allows visitors to easily find and browse events based on their dates, but it also lets them quickly locate upcoming activities or review past events in a structured manner. Let’s dig into how to achieve it with Meta Box!

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How To Create A Custom 404 Page P3 Using Mb Views

How to Create a Custom 404 Page - P3 - Using MB Views

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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How To Show Upcoming Events P5 Using Meta Box And Breakdance

How to Show Upcoming Events - P5 - Using Meta Box and Breakdance

When our team redesigned a website for a client in the entertainment industry, I noticed that highlighting upcoming events is a good way to boost engagement. Displaying all the events is an easy task, but someone may not know how to filter them by date. So, after researching, I’ve written a series on using custom fields with Meta Box combination with various page builders to do it.

This tutorial is about doing it with Breakdance.

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How to Display Real-time Opening Status Automatically - Using MB Views

How to Display Real-time Opening Status Automatically - Using MB Views

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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How To Display Related Posts Based On A Shared Relationship With Meta Box

How to Display Related Posts Based on a Shared Relationship with Meta Box

When developing a website for the event, I realized that helping readers easily find related events, artists, or sessions without searching manually is very useful. This approach is particularly useful when you want to showcase related events, products within the same category, or other articles by the same authors or contributors. After some trials, I found an effective solution with the relationship feature from Meta Box, and I'm excited to share it with you!

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