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WPAlchemy MetaBox: Filtering and Repeating Fields

Filtering and Repeating Fields

Support for two key features make this WordPress meta box PHP class even more attractive. With the addition of filtering and repeating fields, you have even more flexibility when using meta boxes for your themes and plugins.

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WordPress Peekaboo Plugin

Peekaboo

This plugin allows you to show and hide specific portions of content within a post or page. Visitors can then use custom show/hide links to show or hide the portions you’ve defined. The plugin enables a few WordPress shortcodes: [peekaboo], [peekaboo_link], and [peekaboo_content].

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Take Your WordPress Meta Box to the Next Level

Next Level

This WordPress helper will let you create Meta Boxes fast with the flexibility you need as a developer. Full documentation walks you step-by-step. Create custom WordPress Meta Box UI elements for your projects with ease.

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How to Keep the Custom Fields Area Uncluttered When Using WordPress Meta Boxes

Unclutter WordPress Custom Fields

I wanted to touch on this tip a little more, as I might have briefly skimmed over it on my previous post: How to Create a Custom WordPress UI (Post Meta Box).

As you begin to build custom UI elements (meta box elements) for your WordPress themes and/or plugins; you may find it useful to hide certain meta data variable names so that they do not appear in the Custom Fields area (these are the values that get stored in the wp_postmeta database table).

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How to Create A Custom WordPress Meta Box Instead of Using WordPress Custom Fields

WordPress Custom Meta Box

Learning how to create custom WordPress meta boxes allow you to make professional UI elements for yourself and your clients. This WordPress meta box tutorial will show you how to add admin UI elements to the edit post/page screens.

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WordPress Downloader

WordPress Downloader

The script’s main purpose is to provide an easier way to put WordPress on your server (it doesn’t configure WordPress for you). It does do a few things: it will automatically download the latest WordPress release (Zip file), then it will extract the Zip file contents (keeping the wordpress folder if wanted) and then it cleans up, removing the Zip file and itself.

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How to Limit the Display of a WordPress Meta Box

WordPress Meta Box

Make your WordPress custom meta boxes page specific. The home page is a great example of this: often the main page will contain several unique elements which would benefit from using custom meta boxes, but how do you limit the meta box to the home page only?

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WordPress HiFi Plugin — Head and Foot Injection

WordPress

HiFi is a head insert and foot insert plugin. It allows you to include script, style, meta and any other code you want into your posts and pages. The inserted code is page-specific, this means that only the pages you want will be affected.

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jQuery Scrollable Table Plugin

jQuery, write less, do more

This jQuery plugin converts a properly formatted table, having thead and tbody elements (tfoot optional), into a scrollable table. Scrollable tables are most useful when having to display lots of tubular data in a fixed space.

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US Cities and State SQL Dump

US Map

Full SQL dump of cities and states data. There are three tables in all: states, cities, and cities_extended. All packaged in a nice (less then 1MB) ZIP file for your convenience!

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WPAlchemy — WordPress Meta Box PHP Class

Create meta boxes with ease, this PHP class will give you the flexibility to quickly build custom meta boxes for your themes and plugins. Learn More...

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