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March 30, 2016

CMB to CMB2 – a migration tale

In her post, 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.…

Open Source, Plugins and Scripts
March 28, 2016

Don’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…

Advanced Development, Maintenance, Open Source, Plugins and Scripts, Resources, Tools
March 1, 2016

What 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 making some…

Maintenance, Open Source
September 28, 2015

Post 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…

How-to, The Basics
September 28, 2015

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 hook,…

How-to, The Basics
September 28, 2015

Post 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 Social Links?:…

How-to, The Basics
September 28, 2015

Post 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…

How-to, The Basics
September 28, 2015

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…

How-to, The Basics
June 2, 2015

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. Please…

Open Source, Plugins and Scripts, Resources, Tools
March 30, 2015

Use 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 posts,…

Articles Elsewhere, How-to