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Take Your WordPress Meta Box to the Next Level 51

Take Your WordPress Meta Box to the 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.

How to Keep the Custom Fields Area Uncluttered When Using WordPress Meta Boxes 4

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

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. There is no point in allowing the user to edit a piece of meta data in both your custom UI and also in the Custom Fields section (IMHO, i think it adds to the clutter and may cause confusion).

How to Create A Custom WordPress Meta Box Instead of Using WordPress Custom Fields 122

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

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.

WordPress Downloader 9

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.

How to Limit the Display of a WordPress Meta Box 39

How to Limit the Display of a 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?

WPAlchemy

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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