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Aniket Pant
February 23, 2013
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Metaboxes. Do them right.
My slides for WordCamp Pune 2013 -
http://2013.pune.wordcamp.org
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February 23, 2013
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Transcript
Metaboxes. Do them right.
Let’s tweet about this @aniket_pant #wcpune2013
Throw your questions at me anytime. Ask me some thing
right now!
I’m Aniket Pant. And I have been around for over
2 years now. I love to code and get dirty with front- end. I am also the Curator of Mark My Word, a content and design conference. We owe this to ourselves. We owe this to ourselves. We just can’t let this go.
I bet this will remind you of a college lecture.
Introduction to Metaboxes 101
Introduced in version 2.5 Gives life to the awesome CMS
called WordPress
Trust me that they are really awesome. What are Metaboxes?
None
Metaboxes are a great addition to WordPress.
Makes things simpler to maintain and manage. Implementation is fast
and simple. You will definitely fall in love with how you can make your site awesomer with it.
One simple reason. They are cool. Why Metaboxes?
There is nothing better than adding more features onto an
already existing CMS.
None
And then you can use these features to intensify what
you are building.
How do we implement Metaboxes?
Use a library Download a plugin Write the code yourself
/ /
Libraries to implement Metaboxes
Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress by Jared Atchison jaredatchison.com
WPAlchemy by Far In Space farinspace.com/ wpalchemy- metabox
Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress Still in development It’s
simply awesome Plug-and-play Lots of built in features like time and date picker
WPAlchemy Extensive documentation Used in many websites A little slow
on the maintainace Comes along with features you can directly use
For those who wish to use plugins
There is a plugin called Meta Box and it does
everything for you.
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Meta Box is well maintained. Compatible with WordPress 3.5.1 Gives
full control via a full-fledged user interface.
And we can code it too
<?php $meta_boxes[] = array( ‘id’ => ‘personal’, ‘title’ => ‘Personal
Information’, ‘pages’ => array(‘post’, ‘page’, ‘album’), ‘context’ => ‘normal’, ‘priority’ => ‘high’, ‘fields’ => array( array( ‘name’ => ‘Full name’, ‘desc’ => ‘Format: Firstname Lastname’, ‘id’ => $prefix . ‘fname’, ‘type’ => ‘text’, ‘std’ => ‘Anh Tran’, ‘validate_func’ => ‘check_name’ ) ) ); ?> This is just one bit of the actual code. }
Looks complex.
It is complex. I will recommend you to use the
libraries even if you wish to code everything yourself.
These are live projects. Case Studies
Case Study #1: Current News Project by Web Mutiny
None
None
We needed new fields - Place, Date, Subheading, Intro and
Timestamp. And we used Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress because it was perfect for us.
Case Study #2: Smashing Magazine Job Board
http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com
None
Smashing Magazine’s Job Board is a great example of Custom
Fields and Taxonomies put into good use.
Use metaboxes whenever you need to put in more fields
to your website.
I have spoken on Theme Development & Customization. It’ll give
you a good picture of Theme Development with WP. http://aniketpant.com/speaking/ wordcamp-jabalpur-2011
I hope you will use metaboxes in your next project.
Thank you for listening. We are the ones, who will achieve, what the world dreams. Because we still believe.
Liked my talk? Follow me on twitter: @aniket_pant Mail me:
me[at]aniketpant[dot]com Checkout my blog: aniketpant.com