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Meta Box - A Framework for Dynamic WordPress Websites

Meta Box is a professional framework that makes building and customizing a website with dynamic data and content in WordPress fun and easy.

Meta Box helps you add custom fields and dynamic data to posts, pages, custom post types, forms and anywhere you want using over 40+ different field types such as text, images, file upload, checkboxes, and more.

On top of that, each WordPress custom field type has extensive internal options for unlimited content possibilities. Complete customization and control is just a few clicks away.

Meta Box Lite
We recommend using Meta Box Lite, a feature-rich free UI version of Meta Box that provides UI and all free features for managing custom fields and dynamic content on WordPress, including post types, taxonomies, custom fields, and relationships.

Meta Box Features

Create any type of custom fields in WordPress

That's right – any type. No matter where you need to insert custom data and features, Meta Box's WordPress custom fields have your back, and with infinite options to boot.

Here are just a few of the data types you can customize:

Posts
Pages
Custom post types (you can also use our free plugin MB Custom Post Types & Custom Taxonomies to create custom post types and custom taxonomies)
Taxonomies
Settings pages or Customizer sections
User profile pages
Post comments

A wide-range of field types and options

Take your standard WordPress custom field and imagine it infinitely expanded. That's how many options Meta Box gives you:

Meta Box supports 40+ built-in WordPress custom field types for all your needs including text, textarea, WYSIWYG editor, image, file, post, select, checkbox, radio buttons, date/time picker, taxonomy, user, oembed and more to come.
Not enough? You can also effortlessly create your own field type.
Meta Box supports cloning fields for most field types including the WYSIWYG editor field. It also supports repeatable field groups.

It's developer-friendly

As a developer, you have enough on your plate. You shouldn't have to create an entirely new system for each project. Use Meta Box to your full advantage.

You can use Meta Box and its custom fields for any custom post type in WordPress on as many websites as you want so you can use it on client projects as well.

Has an ultra-lightweight, yet powerful API that won't overload your site.
Add only what you need instead of getting stuck with a bundle of features you don't even want that bloat your site.
Meta Box easily integrates with any theme and plugin, and supports Composer!
We use the native WordPress meta data storage and functions for ease of use and lightning-fast processing.
Has a lot of actions and filters so you can build or change a site's appearance and behavior in the plugin.

Don't love coding? You're in luck!

If you prefer a more visual system to create custom fields in WordPress, please use Meta Box Lite, a feature-rich free UI version of Meta Box that provides:

All the power of Meta Box without touching a single line of code.
Designer-friendly, lightweight and work at top-notch speeds.
Export your custom fields and settings to PHP. Then, add it to a new site without needing to install this extension for an incredibly lightweight option.

Free Extensions

MB ACF Migration: Migrate field groups and custom field data from Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to Meta Box.
MB Comment Meta: Add WordPress custom fields to comments in WordPress.
MB Custom Post Types & Custom Taxonomies: Create and manage custom post types and taxonomies with UI.
MB Relationships: Create as many connections as you want from post-to-post or page-to-page.
MB Rank Math: Add content of custom fields to Rank Math Content Analysis to have better/correct SEO score.
MB Rest API: Pull all meta values from posts and terms into the WP REST API responses.
MB Toolset Migration: Migrate custom post types & taxonomies, field groups, custom field data, and relationships from Toolset to Meta Box.
MB Beaver Builder Integrator: Integrates Meta Box and Beaver Themer to show custom fields on the frontend.
MB Elementor Integrator: Connect and display custom fields created by the Meta Box plugin in the Elementor's dynamic tags.
MB FacetWP Integrator: Integrates Meta Box and FacetWP to make custom fields searchable and filterable.
MB Text Limiter: Limit the number of characters or words entered for text and textarea fields.
MB Yoast SEO Integration: Add WordPress custom fields to Yoast SEO Content Analysis to generate more accurate SEO scores.
Meta Box Builder: Create custom meta boxes and custom fields in WordPress using a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface.

Premium Extensions

MB Admin Columns: Display WordPress custom fields in table columns in admin.
MB Blocks: Create custom Gutenberg blocks with PHP, using the same syntax in Meta Box.
MB Custom Table: Save custom fields to custom tables instead of the default meta tables to reduce your database's size and increase its performance.
MB Frontend Submission: Create frontend forms for users to submit posts.
MB Revision: Track changes to custom fields in WordPress with revisions. You can compare and restore the changes smoothly.
MB Settings Page: Create settings pages for themes, plugins or websites with beautiful syntax.
MB Term Meta: Add custom fields to categories, tags or custom taxonomies.
MB User Meta: Add custom fields to users.
MB Views: Outputting custom fields and build front-end templates for WordPress without touching theme files.
Meta Box Columns: Display eye-catching custom fields in WordPress by putting them into 12-column grids.
Meta Box Conditional Logic: Add visibility dependency for custom meta boxes and custom fields in WordPress.
Meta Box Geolocation: Automatically and instantly populate location data with the power of the Google Maps Geolocation API.
Meta Box Group: Create repeatable groups for better appearance and structure.
Meta Box Include Exclude: Show or hide meta boxes by ID, page template, taxonomy, or custom function.
Meta Box Show Hide: Toggle meta boxes by page template, post format, taxonomy and category.
Meta Box Tabs: Painlessly create tabs for meta boxes with multiple styles and icons.
Meta Box Template: Make defining custom meta boxes and WordPress custom fields way easier with templates.
Meta Box Tooltip: Display help information for custom fields with tooltips.

Detailed Documentation

We provide regularly updated, and extensive documentation as well as tutorials on how to use MetaBox and custom fields in WordPress to your advantage as well as in the most efficient way possible.

Here are a few guides to quickly get you started with Meta Box and creating your own WordPress custom fields:

Installation

We recommend using Meta Box Lite, a feature-rich free UI version of Meta Box that provides UI and all free features for managing custom fields and dynamic content on WordPress, including post types, taxonomies, custom fields, and relationships.

To install Meta Box Lite, go to this page and download it.

If you want to use Meta Box, please follow these steps:

Visit Plugins > Add New inside your WordPress dashboard
Search for Meta Box
Click the Install Now button to install the plugin
Click the Activate button to activate the plugin

Get started here.

Contributors

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh a.k.a Rilwis - Initial & lead developer
Franz Josef Kaiser
Omnicia
ruanmer
PerWiklander
funkedgeek
truongwp

See full list of angels!

Changelog

See full changelog here.

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