WPSessions: “Custom Meta and Settings with CMB2”
Last Friday I had the privilege to present on CMB2 for WPSessions. If you use CMB2 at all or are interested in getting started, I HIGHLY recommend you purchase that session. My presentation/notes for...
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What is Post Meta? An intro to WordPress Custom Fields
You may have also heard that WordPress has something called “custom fields.” The WordPress Codex says this in relation to custom fields, “This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data.” So as...
View ArticlePost Meta.. How do I save it?
This is Part 2 of a five-part series on working with WordPress post-meta. If you haven’t, you’ll probably want to start with Part 1. Today, we’re going to talk about how to store those bits of data to...
View ArticlePost Meta.. How do I save it? (add_post_meta)
This is Part 3 of a five-part series on working with WordPress post-meta. If you haven’t, you’ll probably want to start with Part 1. Post background color: #FF0000 Subtitle: My Post Subtitle Show...
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Post Meta.. Let’s make something!
This is Part 4 of a five-part series on working with WordPress post-meta. If you haven’t, you’ll probably want to start with Part 1. So let’s break it down. First we’ll hook into the add_meta_boxes...
View ArticlePost Meta.. The most valuable resources
This is Part 5 of a five-part series on working with WordPress post-meta. If you haven’t, you’ll probably want to start with Part 1. Now that you have a decent understanding of meta data, how to save...
View ArticleUse CMB2 to Create a New Post Submission Form
On the WebDevStudios blog, I wrote a tutorial which provides a pretty in-depth walk-through to demonstrate using CMB2 to create a new post submission form. While the specific implementation is for new...
View ArticleWhat is the future of CMB2?
So recently the WordPress plugin review team, and the WordPress meta team (the team responsible for maintaining wordpress.org and tangential properties like the plugin repo) have been talking about and...
View ArticleDon’t Repeat Yourself. Use WP Lib Loader instead!
I’m a huge fan of the DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) school of thought, and doing a thing once, and doing it well. Because of this, if I sense there’s any chance the code I’m writing is something that can...
View ArticleCMB to CMB2 – a migration tale
Mika Epstein (@Ipstenu) wrote about the process of porting some CMB code to CMB2. I especially appreciate the last paragraph: Simply put, CMB2 does it well, obviously, and simply. The code is easy to...
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