Metaboxes. Do them right.

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Let’s tweet about this @aniket_pant #wcpune2013

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Throw your questions at me anytime. Ask me some thing right now!

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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.

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I bet this will remind you of a college lecture. Introduction to Metaboxes 101

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Introduced in version 2.5 Gives life to the awesome CMS called WordPress

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Trust me that they are really awesome. What are Metaboxes?

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Metaboxes are a great addition to WordPress.

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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.

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One simple reason. They are cool. Why Metaboxes?

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There is nothing better than adding more features onto an already existing CMS.

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And then you can use these features to intensify what you are building.

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How do we implement Metaboxes?

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Use a library Download a plugin Write the code yourself / /

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Libraries to implement Metaboxes

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Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress by Jared Atchison jaredatchison.com WPAlchemy by Far In Space farinspace.com/ wpalchemy- metabox

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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

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WPAlchemy Extensive documentation Used in many websites A little slow on the maintainace Comes along with features you can directly use

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For those who wish to use plugins

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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.

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And we can code it too

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‘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. }

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Looks complex.

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It is complex. I will recommend you to use the libraries even if you wish to code everything yourself.

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These are live projects. Case Studies

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Case Study #1: Current News Project by Web Mutiny

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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.

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Case Study #2: Smashing Magazine Job Board

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http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com

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Smashing Magazine’s Job Board is a great example of Custom Fields and Taxonomies put into good use.

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Use metaboxes whenever you need to put in more fields to your website.

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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

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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.

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